Design of single-feed reflectarray antennas with asymmetric multiple beams using the particle swarm optimization method

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4598-4605

  Nayeri, Payam ^a   Yang, Fan ^a,b   Elsherbeni, Atef Z ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Array theory; Intersection approach; Multibeam; Optimization; Particle swarm; Reflectarray

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; MULTIBEAM ANTENNAS; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

ARRAY THEORY; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; MULTIBEAMS; PARTICLE SWARM; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION APPROACHES; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION METHOD; REFLECTARRAY ANTENNAS; REFLECTARRAYS;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 84883690620     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2013.2268243     Document Type: Article

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