Optimisation of Wire Antennas

This monograph provides the latest results on the nearfield of conventional straight-lined dipoles and monopoles. Shows the capabilities of optimization techniques for synthesizing curvilinear antennas which have unconventional geometries and surprising qualities. Presents applications of these techniques to multiwire structure yields, new types of backfire antennas and Yagi-Uda arrays. The computational methods used have been carefully selected so that effort and computer time are minimized without sacrificing accuracy.