Heat removal capabilities and radiation performances of several sparse antenna array
topologies are studied for cooling enhancement in 5G millimeter-wave base station …

A review of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) with applications to antenna and propagation
problems is presented. EAs have emerged as viable candidates for global optimization …

A new numerical stochastic optimization algorithm, inspired from colonizing weeds, is
proposed for Electromagnetic applications. This algorithm, invasive weed optimization …

The grey wolf optimizer (GWO) is a newly developed swarm intelligence-based optimization
technique that mimics the social hierarchy and group hunting behavior of grey wolves in …

An iterative procedure for the synthesis of sparse arrays radiating focused or shaped
beampattern is presented. The algorithm consists in solving a sequence of weighted l 1 …

Periodic structures can help in the reduction of mutual coupling by using their capability of
suppressing surface waves propagation in a given frequency range. The purpose of this …

Synthesizing antenna arrays is one of the most influential optimization problems in the
electromagnetics community. In this paper, an improved fruit-fly optimization algorithm …

A new approach for the synthesis of thinned uniformly spaced linear arrays featuring a
minimum sidelobe level is presented. The method is based on the iterative Fourier …

The aim of this paper is to discuss a novel technique for sparse array synthesis. The
synthesis strategy is based on a sparse-forcing algorithm using an improvement of the …

In this letter, a new optimization algorithm, the Modified compact Genetic Algorithm (M-cGA)
is introduced and applied to the synthesis of thinned arrays. The M-cGA has been derived …