Dual band planar hybrid coupler with enhanced bandwidth using particle swarm optimization technique

IEICE Electronics Express

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1030-1035

  Yousefi, Mahdi ^a   Mosalanejad, Mohammad ^a   Moradi, Gholamreza ^a   Abdipour, Abdolali ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Dual band hybrid coupler; Particle swarm optimization; Wireless local area network (WLAN) systems

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY DUAL-BAND; BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENT; BROAD BANDS; COMMERCIAL SIMULATORS; DESIGN PROCEDURE; DUAL BAND; DUAL FREQUENCY; DUAL STAGE; HYBRID COUPLER; IEEE 802.11N; MEASURED RESULTS; OPERATING FREQUENCY; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUE; QUADRATURE HYBRIDS; TWO SECTION; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 84863671294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13492543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/elex.9.1030     Document Type: Article

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