A microstrip antenna consists of conducting patch on a ground plane separated by dielectric substrate. What is the best software used for antenna design and simulation. How to design a 1800 mhz dipole antenna using hfss. Micro strip slot antenna becomes very popular day by. The proposed antenna consists of a microstrip patch with a ushaped slot that is fed by a broadband electromagnetic coupling probe, known as lprobe. Reconfigurable microstrip doubledipole antennas for. Part i covers basic antenna theory including gain, directivity, dipole, monopole, and arrays. As an example, the real and imaginary parts of zin z11 have been shown in the figure below. Design and analysis of micro strip antenna using hfss software. Introduction in this tutorial, a dipole antenna will be.
Design and performance evaluation of microstrip antenna. Hfss is a highperformance fullwave electromagnetic em field simulator for arbitrary 3d. Design of highly efficient dipole antenna using hfss. Design of coaxfed eshaped microstrip patch antenna with. Additional benefits of patch antennas is that they are easily fabricated making them cost effective. A new dualband microstrip antenna with ushaped slot in this paper, we present a new dual band planar antenna. The microstrip edge feeding and inset feeding are compared on the basis of the radiation pattern, vswr, 3dgain, 2dgain, directivity, realized gain and sparameter. Microstrip antennae are very simple in construction using a conventional microstrip fabrication technique. Pdf microstrip dipole antenna for wlan application researchgate. This concept was undeveloped until the revolution in electronic circuit miniaturization and. It can be assumed that this impedance has only been presented for irregular microstrip lines. This is a rectangular slot microstrippatch antenna design tutorial using hfss software. When the antenna is excited, the waves generated within the dielectric undergo reflections and the energyis radiated from the edges of the metal patch,which is very low.
This paper describes numerical simulation, fabrication and experimental measurement of microstrip dipole antenna at 2. Comb like hexaband microstrip antenna for s, c and x band applications free download abstract in this paper a comb like microstrip patch antenna structure is proposed. Keywordsmicrostrip patch antenna, frequency, gain, beamwidth,hfss,wireless communication. Hfss microstrip antenna design stripline feeding youtube. A proposed microstrip dipole antenna with tapered arm has been simulated with hfss. In this tutorial, a dipole antenna will be constructed and analyzed using the hfss simulation software by ansoft. In this paper, a microstrip fed slot antenna array for application in the. It also covers new features in ansys hfss for antenna analysis. Students registered in ece451 can get free access to ansys hf package from the university of illinois software webstore. Microstrip patch antenna using hfss linkedin slideshare. This video demonstrates how to create the geometry of the dipole antenna.
The objective of this book is to introduce students and interested researchers to antenna design and analysis using the popular commercial electromagnetic software feko. A patch antenna also known as a rectangular microstrip antenna is. A novel fractal patterned iris loaded cross dipole slot antenna along broad wall of rectangular waveguide at x band is designed. Hfss is high frequency structure simulator it is high performance full wave electromagnetic field simulator 3d volumetric passive device modelling that takes advantages of familiar microsoft windows graphical user interface. It consists of rectangular substrate and the metal trace layer as shown in fig. The sub miniature version a sma connector that contains 50.
Antenna is designed for a resonating frequency of 5. Repeat the triangle for all the remaining three sides. The two antennas adopt ordinary fr4 material as a dielectric substrate, with the advantages of low cost and small size. The resulting plots for z11 in hfss will show us the correct input impedance of patch antenna. Depending on the scale of the problem and results desired, you can select from a range of solver technologies and hpc enhancements available as addons. In the modern days the development in communication systems engineering requires the development of low profile antennas that are capable of maintaining high performance over a wide spectrum of frequencies.
It is one of the several commercial tools used for antenna design. The simulation results for all microstrip dipole antennas with different ground plane are discussed in term of bandwidth response. Apply ansys hfss software to solve the challenges of antenna design, antenna placement and antenna cosite. Antenna based projects antenna based projects for ece. Software used to design microstrip patch antenna hfss is commercial finite element method solver for electromagnetic structures from ansys corp. Introduction in this tutorial, a dipole antenna will be constructed and analyzed using the hfss simulation software by ansoft. Design of microstrip patch antenna the ieee maker project. This technological trend has focused much effort on the basic concepts. A novel hexagonal microstrip antenna for uwb applications. How to cut an xshape patch in a microstrip antenna using.
Note that a quarterwave length transformer was used to match the patch to a 50 ohm feed line. Starting hfss follow instructions from the hfss stripline laboratorytutorial for any pop ups that may occur. Aperture coupled microstrip antenna design and analysis a linearlypolarized aperture coupled patch antenna design is characterized and optimized using hfss antenna simulation software. This thesis focuses on the aperture coupled patch antenna due to the lack of fabrication and tuning documentation for the design. Microstrip patch antenna simulation setup for microstrip fed patch antenna. The metamaterial array is embedded inside the substrate of rectangular microstrip patch antenna. Microstrip patch antenna array design to improve better. Simulate and analyze a rectangular patch antenna using ansys hfss, including return loss and 3d radiation fields. Investigating em dipole radiating element for dual. Index terms coaxial probe feed, e shaped microstrip patch antenna, hfsssoftware, triple frequency bands.
Click the project fil e and select insert insert hfss design from the men u. Radiation characteristics of the antenna and different methods for control. Antenna projects using hfss electronics electrical projects. Follow the installation guide to install the software on your pc. The software used to model and simulate the microstrip patch antenna is hfss. The radiation pattern of microstrip or patch antenna is.
The simulation results for all microstrip dipole antennas with different ground plane are discussed in term of bandwidth response and input return loss. The dipole antenna is designed using the hfss v15 software and. A dual band antenna and a microstrip fed patch antenna, used in the communication lab. Moreover, the input impedance of the antenna can be controlled in ads software. The simulation of the microstrip patch antenna for the two feeding techniques is performed on hfss software. I have a problem in designing pifa, i dont know how to feed the antenna in hfss. Microstrip patch antenna consists of a radiating patch on one side of a dielectric substrate fr4 that has a ground plane cu on the other side as shown in fig. Ansoft hfss high frequency structure simulator is an integrated fullwave electromagnetic simulation and optimization package for analysis and design of 3dimensional microstrip antennas and high frequency printed circuits and digital circuits such as microwave and millimeterwave integrated circuits mmics and high speed printed circuit boards pcbs. Results which we obtain by making use of hfss software are better. Here, microstrip line is used to provide feeding to the proposed antenna.
The example will illustrate both the simplicity and power of hfss through construction and simulation of this antenna structure. I want to implement a dipole antenna which operates at 1800mhz to use it to check. Determining input impedance of patch antenna in hfss. First the model of the microstrip patch antenna has to be drawn in hfss. Design and simulation of microstrip phase array antenna. Basic understanding of the antenna we will model one of the most basic antennas so that we can simulate a load, and design a matching network. Multislot microstrip antenna design in ultra wide band. Hfss stands for high frequency structural simulator. The radiations travelling from both air and substrate have different values. Ansys hfss is an industry standard tool for simulating 3d fullwave electromagnetic fields. The following image shows a microstrip or patch antenna.
Draw a square patch first, then use the draw line icon and draw three lines starting from a side of a square which forms a triangle. In this antenna design, agilents ads software using momentum simulation is employed to analyze the entire structure. This slide describes design and simulation about the micro strip patch antenna using hfss software. In the 1st trial i designed a microstrip patch antenna in this for feeding point. This antenna is designed on fr4 substrate with thickness h of 1. From the h fss menu select solution type and driven modal.
This book, being tutorial in nature, is primarily intended for students working in the field of antenna analysis and design. For the designing of mathematical calculations are used to calculate the dimensions of rectangular microstrip patch antenna 3. The comparison of feeding techniques shows that the rectangular. Introduction in recent years there is a need for more compact antennas due to rapid decrease in size of personal communication devices. The simulation results with hfss software prove that the. Microstrip patch antenna has a ground plane on the one 1.
The important parameter in the design of an microstrip antenna is its effective refractive index. The following notes will provide a brief summary of goals. Their low profile design, often square or rectangular, allows them to be mounted to flat surfaces. Alwa ys create a persona l folder to store all hfss p rojects. In each dipole, the left half is printed on the top substrate layer and fed by a microstrip line, while the right half is printed on the bottom layer and connected to. Multislot microstrip antenna design in ultra wide band region using hfss software md. Microstrip patch antennas or simply patch antenna are increasingly useful because the antenna is printed directly onto a circuit board. Specifically,two folded feed lines are placed between the radiator patch and the feed point. A triangular patch antenna for uhf band with microstrip. Design and analysis of slot antenna parameters using hfss. By using iteration the bandwidth of antenna get increased. Design of miniaturized dualband microstrip antenna for. Upon incorporation, directivity increases by 24% and. The antenna design and dimensions were investigated.
Antenna structure the geometry of microstrip fed patch antenna for rfid applications is shown in figure 1. The second group focused on the design and simulation of patch antennas which are widely used in cell phones today with an emphasis on optimization of a 1. Rectaangular microstrip patch antenna for wireless. Microstrip antenna with aperture reflector and cshaped. Antenna design antenna modeling software ansys hfss. Design of microstrip dipole antenna at various ground. So we go for effective refractive index and it is calculated as, for 1, hfss as a propriety software. Ansys hfss is a 3d electromagnetic em simulation software for designing and simulating highfrequency electronic products such as antennas, antenna arrays,antenna based mini projects using hfss rf or microwave components, highspeed interconnects, filters, connectors, ic packages and printed circuit boards. In ieee paper said a 50 ohmi coaxial line is used to feed the antenna.
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