The differintegral design of electrically small fractal wire antennas

Abstract

The properties of electrically small wire antennas are compared as a function of their total wire length, geometry, and effective volume. The radiation properties considered include resonant frequency and quality factor Q. To estimate the /spl alpha/-forms, possible algorithms are formulated, namely a geometric one involving evaluation of the Hausdorff measure and an analytical algorithm permitting the Hausdorff measure to be evaluated through application of fractional derivatives and integrals.