FRACTAL-SHAPED TILES DEVELOPED FOR NEW BROADBAND ANTENNA CLASS
Penn State engineers have developed innovative design methods for a
new class of antennas composed of an array of fractal-shaped tiles
that offer anywhere from a 4:1 to 8:1 improvement in bandwidth
compared to their conventional counterparts. Douglas H. Werner,
professor of electrical engineering and senior scientist in Penn
State's Applied Research Laboratory, recently described the new
antennas at a conference on wireless communication technology in
Hawaii. While fractal concepts have been used previously in antenna
design, Werner and his research team are the first to introduce a
design approach for broadband phased array antenna systems that
combines aspects of tiling theory with fractal geometry.
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