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In this paper, an antenna with a miniature structure and wide-band is presented. We designed a two-arm conical spiral antenna according to the structure features of the Archimedes spiral and the conical helical antenna, and proposed an exponential asymptote balun to match the impedance. Unlike traditional antenna designs which optimize antenna and matching module separately, we adopted the differential evolution (DE) algorithm to optimize both the antenna and balun simultaneously. In addition, the peak radiation direction of the antenna was added as a constraint when evolving the antenna, which is usually ignored in normal evolutionary antenna designs. Simulation results indicate that the evolved antenna can basically fulfills the requirements. And the evolved antenna with the additional constraint has smaller deviation angle between the peak radiation direction and the antenna’s axis than that without the constraint.
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The authors are very grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments to this paper. This work is supported by the National Science Foundation of China under Grant 61673355, 61271140 and 61203306.
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Zhang, R., Sun, J., Sun, Y., Lan, B., Zeng, S. (2018). A Study of Miniaturized Wide-Band Antenna Design. In: Li, K., Li, W., Chen, Z., Liu, Y. (eds) Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems. ISICA 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 874. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1651-7_37
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