Title :
On the effect of the finite metal conductivity in the design of wire antennas using evolutionary design
Author :
Casula, G.A. ; Mazzarella, G. ; Sirena, N.
Author_Institution :
Dip. Ing. Elettr. ed Elettron., Univ. di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Abstract :
Evolutionary Design is an innovative procedure of antenna design, able to search in a very large solution space. As such, it tends to design superdirective antennas. It is shown here that inclusion of conductor losses prevents from superdirective solutions, with no degradation in EM performances, at the cost of a larger antenna size.
Keywords :
conductors (electric); directive antennas; evolutionary computation; wire antennas; antenna size; conductor losses; evolutionary design; finite metal conductivity effect; superdirective antenna design; wire antenna design; Antennas; Bandwidth; Conductivity; Conductors; Gain; Metals; Wires; Evolutionary Design; Superdirective Antennas; Wire Antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Spokane, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9562-7
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2011.5997013
