International Journal of Antennas and Propagation
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 790358, 6 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/790358
Research Article

Global Synthesis Method for the Optimization of Multifeed EBG Antennas

XLIM Laboratory, University of Limoges, Limoges 87060, France

Received 19 March 2008; Revised 9 July 2008; Accepted 15 August 2008

Academic Editor: Karu Esselle

Copyright © 2008 Julien Drouet et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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