Hfss antenna practices impedance matching antenna with circuit elements and explores examples of finite array design. Patch antenna design using ansys hfss webinar ozen. Gain enhancement of a microstrip patch antenna using a. Microstrip patch antenna design santa clara university. The microstrip patch antenna model used for the numerical simulation in ansoft hfss is shown in fig.
Hfss software is the industrystandard simulation tool for 3d fullwave electromagnetic field simulation and is essential for the design of highfrequency and highspeed component design. The following workshop provide a comprehensive understanding of. The proposed antenna is suitable for specific applications, such as security and military systems, which require a narrow bandwidth and a small antenna size. Name is the property name and value is the corresponding value. Patch antenna with a quarterwavelength matching section.
Deschamps in 1953, but didnt become practical until the 1970s when it was developed further by researchers such as robert e. Tools options hfss options general tab check use wizards for data input when creating new boundaries check duplicate boundariesmesh operations with geometry click ok. Final project to design specific microstrip antenna, fabrication and measurement. Hfsss microstrip patch antenna design part1basics of antenna design using hfss software. Hfss introduction quick and complete introduction of hfss. The design specifications for the antenna are given as below. Microstrip patch antennas or simply patch antenna are increasingly useful because the antenna is printed directly onto a circuit board. You are welcome to visit a website that goes along with a course at the university of houston on microstrip antennas powerpoint viewgraphs from the course may be found there, along with the viewgraphs from this short course. Additional benefits of patch antennas is that they are easily fabricated making them cost effective. Therefore, it will no longer describe every single button click. Design techniques for microstrip patch antenna design. Design simulation and fabrication of microstrip patch antenna. The following image shows a microstrip or patch antenna. This webinar is intended to show how to simulate and analyze a microstrip patch antenna using ansys hfss.
The fundamentals of patch antenna design and performance. Introduction to antennas professional and workforce. A microstrip patch antenna mpa consists of a conducting patch of any planar or nonplanar geometry on one side of a dielectric substrate with a ground plane on other side. For the proposed design this paper got a high gain of 17. This is a one day course, intended for people who have had little or no experience with ansys hfss. The patch is generally made up of a conducting material such as copper or gold and can take any possible shape like rectangular, circular, triangular, elliptical or some other common shape. Patch antenna design using hfss ozen engineering and ansys. Siddaiah procedia computer science 85 2016 401 a 409 fig. How to get started with designing a microstrip patch antenna. The goal is to match the input impedance zin to the transmission line z0.
Keywords microstrip patch antenna, frequency, gain, beamwidth, hfss,wireless communication. Microstrip patch antenna has a ground plane on the one 1. Rectangular microstrip patch antenna, return loss, vswr, bandwidth, high frequency structure simulator hfss v 11, wireless communication. Microstrip patch antenna array design to improve better gains. Hfss antenna covers both finite element analysis fea volumetric simulation as well as integral equation ie simulation and how they can connect a reflector antenna dish simulation to a horn antenna simulation feeding the dish. Microstrip patch antenna calculator electrical engineering. Different types of antennas dipole, horn, patch, etc. It is a popular printed resonant antenna for narrowband microwave wireless links that require semihemispherical coverage. Feb 08, 2016 designing of microstrip antenna in order to design a microstrip rectangular patch antenna to operate in a k band frequency range, although there are various simulation software available for example feko, ie3d, cst, hfss etc.
Keywordsmicrostrip patch antenna, frequency, gain, beamwidth,hfss,wireless communication. Ansys hfss tutorial simulate and analyze an example of microstrip line drew handler, jerry yang october 20, 2014. This workshop is intended to show how to simulate and analyze a microstrip patch antenna using ansys hfss. Their low profile design, often square or rectangular, allows them to be mounted to flat surfaces. A low profile, unidirectional, dual layer, and narrow bandwidth microstrip patch antenna is designed to resonate at 2. Introduction microstrip patch antennas have drawn the. Some basic references are provided at the end of these viewgraphs. The structure consists of a conducting patch and a ground plane between which is a substrate that can either be air or a.
Design simulation and fabrication of microstrip patch antenna 349 the proposed antenna is designed in lte band ii for 4g mimo communication. When i was young not even in university i had an identical task to design narrow. Antenna geometry and its optimization the design of the proposed antenna involve two phases, the first phase is to design and simulate a simple micro strip patch antenna and the second phase involves design and simulation of patch antenna with fss structures using the design. I have designed single patch antenna without dgs, 2x1 array antenna and 4x1 array antenna without dgs,4x1 array antenna with dgs dumbbell shaped, double circular. We are using hfsshigh frequency structure simulator version. The introduction to ansys hfss course will teach the students how to design and analyze highfrequency electronic components such as rfmicrowave components and antennas. A dual band antenna and a microstrip fed patch antenna, used in the communication lab.
Microstrip bend lumped ports and simulation, waveguide wave. To determine the width w, the microstrip patch antenna calculator was used to provide an initial. Note that a quarterwave length transformer was used to match the patch to a 50 ohm feed line. This work is mainly focused on increasing the gain as well as reducing the size of the unidirectional patch. The objective is to provide a very thorough introduction to hfss as applied to antenna design, which may be followed stepbystep in hfss with the investment of only a few hours of time. How to get started with designing a microstrip patch. The microstrip antenna can also be matched to a transmission line of characteristic impedance z0 by using a quarterwavelength transmission line of characteristic impedance z1 as shown in figure 2. Its goldstandard accuracy, advanced solver and compute technology have made it an essential tool for engineers designing high.
The radiation pattern of microstrip or patch antenna is. Pdf simulation od microstrip antenna using hfss researchgate. The antenna is operating in lte band ii having frequencies of 1850 mhz1910 mhz which is uplink frequency. Click here to go to our page on circular patch antennas new for september 2018. This work is mainly focused on increasing the gain as well as reducing the size of the unidirectional patch antenna. Mostly patch antennas are directly designed in printed circuit boards pcb. In my project, i have designed and simulated microstrip patch antenna at operating frequency 2. Fabrication tutorial using milling machine recorded lab tutorial.
Introduction in recent years there is a need for more compact antennas due to rapid decrease in size of personal communication devices. The simulation, using hfss, of the patch has given different parameters like return loss, vswr, gain along theta, phi directions, radiation pattern in 2d and 3d. The dimensions of antenna can be found in the hfss simulation file. This paper explains about a 3x3 rectangular microstrip patch antenna arrays using hfss 14. Jun 21, 2011 microstrip patch antenna design using hfss duration.
Mar 07, 2016 hfss microstrip patch antenna analysis and design 1. Hfss offers multiple stateof theart solver technologies based on either the proven finite element method or the well established integral equation method. This is the tutorial video on ansoft hfss software. Ec 4th year shivanshu awasthi ec 4th year sarvesh kumar nishad ec 4th year novman asif ec 4th year. Trainings vlsi, esdm, antenna design, hfss, maxwell. Hfss software is the industrystandard simulation tool for 3d fullwave. Rectaangular microstrip patch antenna for wireless. Coaxial tee sparameters and field plots, patch antenna smith chart and field plots. Hfss stands for high frequency structural simulator. 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. The rectangular micro strip patch antenna is analyzed using high frequency structure simulator hfss v 11. Conclusion a microstrip line fed single frequency microstrip patch antenna has been designed and simulated using hfss software. Ansys hfss is the industry leading 3d electromagnetic em simulation tool for high frequency and high speed electronic components including.
The focus of the course is rf and microwave, including filter, microstrip and waveguide structures. Post processing focuses on sparameter plots and field overlays on geometry. This video covers the implementation of a 10 ghz rectangular patch antenna, with an inset feed in ansys hfss. Patch antenna design using hfss this workshop is intended to show how to simulate and analyze a microstrip patch antenna using ansys hfss. A microstrip patch antenna is one of the most popular microwave antennas. It consists of rectangular substrate and the metal trace layer as shown in fig.
Microstrip bend geometry, wr 90 waveguide filter geometry. Microstrip rectangular patch antenna linkedin slideshare. Certified hfss course icrs international centre for radio science. This 1day ansys hfss training course is for beginners who wish to design and. Design and analysis of microsrtip square patch antenna under the kind guidance of. The objective is to provide a very thorough introduction to hfss as applied to antenna design, which may be followed stepbystep in. The antenna is operating in lte band ii having frequencies of 1850 mhz1910 mhz which is. Google for microstrip patch antenna handbook or go into the arrl magazine or any other ham radio organisations. Is there any free software where i can design a microstrip.
Microstrip bend lumped ports and simulation, waveguide wave ports and simulation. Software used to design microstrip patch antenna hfss is commercial finite element method solver for electromagnetic structures from ansys corp. This tool is designed to calculate the correct dimensions of a microstrip patch antenna if the operating frequency and the dielectric constant of the material used, is known. The objective of this tutorial is to simulate a microstrip patch antenna resonating at a. Aperturecoupled patch antenna this exercise assumes you have already had a little exposure to ansoft hfss, e. You can specify several namevalue pair arguments in any order as name1, value1. Hfss introduction quick and complete introduction of. Alternate feed methods a common variation in patch antenna design is the location and routing of the feed, to obtain a desired feedpoint impedance, to control the polarization, or for convenient layout. November 9, 2018 in training, webinar single event by ozen. This antenna has been designed using hfss high frequency structure simulator. If you are looking for hfss tutorial then this video playlist will help you to learn antenna.
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. It is one of the several commercial tools used for antenna design. Figure 8 radiation pattern of the microstrip patch antenna v. If the dielectric constant of the material is not known, you can choose to put in the velocity of. Properties not specified retain their default values. Ansys hfss is a 3d electromagnetic em simulation software for designing and simulating highfrequency electronic products such as antennas, antenna arrays, rf or microwave components, highspeed interconnects, filters, connectors, ic packages and printed circuit boards. Microstrip patch antenna array design to improve better. Microstrip patch antenna design using hfss duration. Simulate and analyze a rectangular patch antenna using ansys hfss. It has substrate fr4 having dielectric constants of 4. The hfss getting started course also introduces high performance computing and parameterized sweeps and optimization in the hfss optimetrics package.
Design techniques for microstrip patch antenna design bartleby. In the 1st trial i designed a microstrip patch antenna in this for feeding point. Introduction ansys hfss is an industry standard tool for simulating 3d fullwave electromagnetic fields. Zontal cendes and his students at carnegie mellon univ. Visualization using hfss package recorded lab tutorial. Antenna optimization workflow using hfss realtime antenna parameter tuning duration.
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