Abstract
One of the major limitations of electrically small antennas is that as the size of the antenna is decreased its radiation resistance approaches zero and its reactance approaches plus or minus infinity. Most small antennas are inefficient, nonresonant and, thus, require matching networks. In this investigation, we use a genetic algorithm (GA) in conjunction with the numerical electromagnetics code to search for resonant wire shapes that best utilize the volume within which the antenna is confined. Antenna configurations, over a ground plane, having from two to ten wire segments, were optimized near 400 MHz and then built and tested. As the cube size deceased from a side length of 0.096/spl lambda/ to 0.026/spl lambda/, the computed Qs increased from 15.8 to 590. The measured Qs increased from 16.0 to 134 for cubes of 0.093 to 0.037/spl lambda/ on edge. This process for designing small antennas using a GA produced new self-resonant antenna configurations.
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