Invasive weed optimized planar elliptical dipole antenna for ultra-wideband EMC applications

This paper presents a novel method for optimizing a planar elliptical dipole antenna for ultra-wideband EMC applications. The Invasive Weed optimization (IWO) method is used, which is a nature inspired metaheuristic evolutionary algorithm. The goal is to achieve maximum boresight realized gain and minimum reflection coefficient S11 across the frequency range of 1 GHz to 5 GHz.