Designing the parameters of an FSS antenna for communication systems using an enhanced UTC-PSO approach

• Published in: Journal of computational electronics Vol. 19; no. 4; pp. 1579 - 1587
• Main Authors: Rao, K. Nishanth, Meshram, Vaibhav, Suresh, H. N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01-12-2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Antenna design; Antennas; Arrays; Bandwidths; Communications systems; Design; Design optimization; Design parameters; Efficiency; Electrical Engineering; Engineering; Frequency selective surfaces; Mathematical and Computational Engineering; Mathematical and Computational Physics; Mechanical Engineering; Optical and Electronic Materials; Particle swarm optimization; Radiation; Theoretical; Ultrawideband; UWB; EW; TCA; PSO; FSS
• ISSN: 1569-8025; 1572-8137
• DOI: 10.1007/s10825-020-01554-x

In recent years, communications-based applications have become increasingly important, depending principally on the design, architecture, and performance of the antenna. The design for an antenna for use in a proposed system must consider its range of applications in several fields. The use of a Frequency-Selective Surface (FSS) is proposed herein to vary the performance based on the design parameters. The FSS is optimized herein using the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) enhaned Ultra Wideband Tightly Coupled Array with Resistive FSS (denoted as the PSO-UTC-FSS approach). The PSO technique improves the accuracy of the designed antenna parameters. The FSS maintains the gain while reducing the bandwidth interference. Using these concepts, the losses are minimized, hence improving the radiation efficiency, gain, bandwidth ratio, etc.