C 1 = o 2- ln r r - d = 1 2- o c o 2 ln r r - d . (25) Finally, the effective permeability of inner ring shorted split ring resonator is calculated as, eff = 1 - r 2 a 2 1 + i 2r - xl  o r 2 - 2lc o 2  2 r 2 2r - x ln r r - d . (26) Equation (26) is plotted in Figure 3, which shows that the effective permeability becomes negative at 2.617 GHz. Comparing Figure 1(b) and Figure 3, it is observed that SRR has been tuned and the frequency at which effective permeability becomes negative has shifted from 2.8 to 2.617 GHz. The resonant frequency of inner ring shorted SRR is given by o 2 = 2lc o 2 r 2 2r - x ln r r - d , (27) and can be calculated for the values in Figure 3 as, = 22.614 GHz). (28) The effective permeabilities for different lengths of split parts of outer ring of inner ring shorted SRR are plotted in Figure 3, which shows that the resonant frequency decreases with decrease in length of split part. 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Solymar, Properties of a metamaterial element: Analytical solutions and numerical simulations for a singly split double ring, J Appl Phys 95 (2004), 3778 –3784. 9. J.D. Baena, R. Marques, and F. Medina, Artificial magnetic metamate- rial design by using spiral resonators, Phys Rev B 69 (2004), 014402. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION WITH TOURNAMENT SELECTION FOR LINEAR ARRAY SYNTHESIS J. R. Pe ´ rez and J. Basterrechea Department of Communications Engineering, ETSIIT, University of Cantabria, Avda. de Los Castros s/n. 39005 Santander, Spain; Corresponding author: perezjr@unican.es Received 23 July 2007 ABSTRACT: The modern heuristic particle swarm optimization tech- nique (PSO) has received great attention in many applications and re- search areas over the last few years, and novel PSO-based algorithms are continuously emerging to improve its overall performance. In this article, classical PSO schemes are modified by introducing a selection operator widely used in evolutionary algorithms such as genetic algo- rithms, and these novel hybrid algorithms are applied to linear array synthesis using complex weights and considering directive element pat- terns to weigh up the improvements achieved. Up to eight classical PSO schemes are addressed by the PSO suite tested in this work, including PSO with synchronous and asynchronous updates of the swarm along with global and local topologies for both, real-valued and binary encod- ing algorithms. Furthermore, representative results comparing both classical PSO schemes and the new hybrid approaches are reported and discussed, demonstrating that the selection operator clearly increases search pressure over the swarm, speeding up convergence for certain specific schemes. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 50: 627– 632, 2008; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.23148 Key words: array synthesis; evolutionary algorithms; particle swarm optimization; tournament selection 1. INTRODUCTION As an alternative to traditional gradient-based local-search optimi- zation methods, modern heuristics such as simulated annealing, genetic algorithms (GA), memetic algorithms, ant colony optimi- zation, cultural algorithms, and more recently, particle swarm optimization (PSO), have aroused great interest among the elec- tromagnetics community in a wide variety of fields and applica- TABLE 1 Comparison of Published Results of Resonant Frequencies of Inner Ring Shorted Split Ring Resonator with Analytical Results for Different Lengths of the Split Part Having d 0.5 e–3 m x (mm) Published Results [8] (GHz) Analytical Results (GHz) 0.1 2.25 2.558 0.5 2.5 2.567 1.0 2.618 2.58 2.5 2.62 2.617 DOI 10.1002/mop MICROWAVE AND OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY LETTERS / Vol. 50, No. 3, March 2008 627