Metamaterial unit cell square srr design using cst and. Because of this, we need to define an airbox around our design. Dual band metamaterial antenna for ltebluetoothwimax. Microstrip patch antenna for rfid applications request pdf. Thus, by this approach, considerable size reduction of antenna is achieved while attaining enhanced directivity.
Design, simulation and fabrication of an optimized microstrip. To confirm the characteristics of the antenna parameters, hfss from. A dual band antenna and a microstrip fed patch antenna, used in the communication lab. Analysis and design of rectangular microstrip patch. Ansys high frequency structure simulator hfss tutorial.
This paper elucidates antenna parameter optimization using 2 segment labyrinth metamaterial embedded in antenna substrate at high frequency thz. The design planar invertedf antenna, antenna, it can be operated in resonating frequency sband range. Mar 03, 2018 hfss tutorials for beginners to professionals. The structures are simulated using hfss electromagnetic simulator software. I am just starting to learn or metamaterials so, planning to start with an example file in hfss, pls help. Understanding the behaviour of the microstrip patch antenna and design of it for different metamaterial with the use of the graphical user interface using matlab is better way of analysis. The beauty of this antenna is the use of single patch which make it easy to fabricate consequently cost of antenna becomes cheaper. Simply it is the way to miniaturized patch antenna using a metamaterial composed of complementary resonator. This antenna has 140 mhz bandwidth, return loss at centre frequency has less than 16.
The basic theoretical concepts of various parts of microstrip an tennas, their feeding methods, the design considerations and the techniques for performance improvement of microstrip antennas are discussed. A stopband around the 2ghz range using conventional structures would most often require unit cell size of 0mm x 0mm or greater. Design of millimeter wave microstrip patch antenna for mimo. A dualband microstrip patch antenna is designed and analyzed using metamaterial artificial substrate.
Mar 07, 2016 software used to design microstrip patch antenna hfss is commercial finite element method solver for electromagnetic structures from ansys corp. A metamaterial antenna behaves as if it were much larger than its actual size, because its novel structure stores and reradiates energy. The aim of this project is to design a microstrip phase array antenna in ads advance design system momentum. Design of compact microstrip patch antenna for mimo system using hfss software is proposed. Equivalent circuits of a conventional patch antenna, b patch. Antenna using metamaterials that is being submitted by govinda pradhan11003299 is. Ansoft hfss has been used to design and analyse the rmpa rectangular microstrip patch antenna with design frequency 9. The use of slotted patch reduces the size of antenna and higher. Tools options hfss options general tab check use wizards for data input when creating new boundaries check duplicate boundariesmesh operations with geometry click ok.
Applications ranging from cloaking to miniaturization have necessitated new analysis and design approaches to these electromagnetically complex. In this paper, a rectangular microstrip patch antenna is designed using hfss software. Design of metamaterial based microstrip antenna with multiband. If you are looking for hfss tutorial then this video playlist will help you to learn antenna. This tutorial covers the fundamental theoretical considerations of the project. The base hfss offering includes 3d and layout interfaces, 2. Study of ebg structures using metamaterial technology. Bandwidth enhancement of rmpa using 2 segment labyrinth.
The microstrip antenna is one of the best antenna structures, due to its low cost and compact design. Ive already investigated the farfield behavior by simulating a unitcell, utilizing masterslave boundaries to force the unitcell behavior to be replicated and forcing a plane wave to impinge upon the infinite sheet of metamaterial by utilizing perfect e and perfect h boundaries on my ports. This paper shows the design considerations of the proposed antenna as well as the simulated results of the same. I have design an antenna using meta material in hfss. It is one of the several commercial tools used for antenna design. The proposed structure is simulated using agilent advanced design system ads 2011. Design, simulation and fabrication of an optimized. For example, dgs for 6 is designed on compact printed monopole antenna. Mimo multiple input multiple output,hfss high frequency structure simulator,mm wave frequency 1. If a new project and new design are not already opened, then. One familiar application of this type of patch antenna is the rectangular antenna usually in a plastic housing used widely in 2. The antenna and metamaterial unit cell are designed and analysed in high frequency structure simulator hfss. A compact microstrip patch antenna using metamaterial. Inset fed triangular shaped patch antenna design at 2.
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. The design and simulation of mic rostrip patch antenna with and without metamaterial structure has been done using cst software. This chapter contains the design and simulation of dng metamaterial antennas using transmission line approach. Experimentally, landy was able toachieve an absorptivity of 88%.
Design of metamaterials in hfss and extraction of permittivity and permeability using nrw method monika dhillon and pradeep dimri monika dhillon, master of technology student of electronics and communication engineering of ymca university of science and technology, faridabad. Thus in this tutorial, a dipole antenna will be constructed and analyzed using the hfss simulator. This is the tutorial video on ansoft hfss software. For a practical implementation using metamaterials. The fundamentals of patch antenna design and performance. Design and simulation of rectangular microstrip patch antenna. For example, the portable devices like laptop, notebook, pda, and. The high frequency structure simulator software hfss is used to design these antennas. Hfss treats the space around your design that hasnt been designated as a specific material as pec. Metamaterial inspired microstrip antenna investigations using. The microstrip line model method is used and been simulated by using hfss software. Application of metamaterial structures in the design, analysis and. Depending on the technical requirements of the designed antenna, the metamaterials will be used as different functions of the antenna.
Introduction to metamaterial applications and simulation with ansys hfss webinar metamaterials are rapidly becoming a key research topic in todays leading academic and commercial laboratories. But, i personally think it would be better for one to go through the hfss guide. Design of highgain siw and hmsiw hplane horn antenna. This book, being tutorial in nature, is primarily intended for students working in the field of antenna analysis and design. The objective of this book is to introduce students and interested researchers to antenna design and analysis using the popular commercial electromagnetic software feko. What is the best book for getting started with the hfss.
The design has improved return loss and bandwidth while maintaining the vswr and gain to the same level required for mobile applications as bluetooth at 2. Hi, can i get hfss sample files for metamaterial antenna. This video coantains design procedures of a square shaped metamaterial unit cell using cst and hfss. Using metamaterials in antenna design may lead to reduced size, improve gain, enhance bandwidth or to create multiband antenna. The designed antennas are useful for wireless application like wlan. Ebg antenna and compare their characteristics at the frequency 2. Fig 6 design of single patch antenna in hfss simulation results the 2x2 patch array antenna is simulated using ansoft hfss. Getting started with hfss v9 for antenna design october, 2003 this getting started training material is intended for new users of hfss. The antenna at a quarter wave length, so reduce the antenna size and return loss. For example, a unit cell of metamaterial is designed and simulated based on the steps below. In this context, a metamaterial loaded yagi antenna is.
Design of metamaterial loaded microstrip patch antenna the proposed design is based on rectangle shape. The size of the unit cell, in order for the metamaterial to satisfy the. The proposed design is compared with conventional patch antenna which shows a significant improvement in return loss up to. Hfss quick and complete introduction of hfss tutorials for. The proposed antenna operates in mm wave frequency band that provides enhanced bandwidth and data rate. Metamaterial based substrate is designed using square split ring resonator ssrr and wire strip. A new solution that is of great interest to designers is the use of electromagnetic metamaterials for antenna design. High directive antenna has been designed with metamaterial superstrate for ku band. Design and simulation of ultra wide band ulb patch antenna using hfss. How can i simulate metamaterials based antenna in hfss. 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. Antenna designs incorporating metamaterials can stepup the antenna s radiated power. Introduction in this tutorial, a dipole antenna will be constructed and analyzed using the hfss simulation software by ansoft. Insert hfss design the icon below represents the insert hfss design ihd option.
Hfss design properties add r antipad 1 mm, the height of the antipad should be identical to the thickness of the ground plane. Note inclusion of ihd modifies the project and hence the asterisk appears on projectn. Rfantenna projects electrical engineering cal poly. The design is analysed by finite element method fem based hfss simulator software 14. Using fractal metamaterial antenna of first and second order iterative mathematics, antenna is miniaturized by 58 and 75% along with improvement in. Change the drawing plane back from zx to xy draw a box and fill in the values as shown below. Metamaterial is integrated on the halfmode horn as well for improvement in gain and radiation pattern. Design and simulation of rectangular microstrip patch. The performance parameters were achieved with return loss 16. Metamaterials in application to improve antenna parameters. Rtdurroid 5880 is used as a substrate for this microstrip patch array design. Metamaterial fss unit cell design using hfss part 1 youtube.
An enhanced microstrip antenna using metamaterial at 2. Figure 4 input impedance of simple microstrip patch antenna using hfss. Metamaterials are materials typically engineered with novel or artificial structures to produce electromagnetic properties that are unusual or difficult to obtain in nature. Pdf this report describes the theory of metamaterials and its utilization for antennas. Thus the design and simulation of microstrip rectangular patch antenna was successfully designed and analyzed using ansoft hfss. Unit cell, planar metamaterial hfss model and triplanar models fig. Overview of hfss fullwave frequencydomain 3d field solver based upon finite element method industrystandard accuracy adaptive meshing of arbitrary geometry fully parametric modeling optimization and hpc multiphysics via ansys workbench widely used for rfmicrowave design antenna design and platform integration filters and waveguide structures. Rectaangular microstrip patch antenna for wireless. Design and analysis of micro strip antenna using hfss. The antenna is tuned to work at two resonating frequencies in the frequency range from 1 ghz to 4 ghz depending on the geometric specifications of ssrr, strip line, radiating patch, and feed.
To set up an hfss design, follow this general procedure. The designed antenna has a resonating frequency of 2. The rectangular micro strip patch antenna is analyzed using high frequency structure simulator hfss v 11. The function of the metamaterials can be explained by the simple example. International journal of mechanical engineering and technology, 87. In my thesis i learnt about hfss software which is used for designing and simulation of. This concept was undeveloped until the revolution in electronic circuit miniaturization and. Design and simulation of uwb patch antenna using hfss part.
Dualband microstrip patch antenna miniaturization using. The microstrip patch mspa design 1 provides a total antenna gain of 1. Hfss stands for high frequency structural simulator. Note that after you insert a design, you do not need to perform the steps sequentially, but they must be completed before a solution can be generated. Click the project file and select insert insert hfss design. The parameters evaluated were gain, beamwidth and return loss. Alternate feed methods a common variation in patch antenna design is the location and routing of the feed, to. Figure 5 gain for the simple rectangular patch antenna using hfss.
The objective is to provide a very thorough introduction to hfss as applied to antenna design, which may be followed stepbystep in hfss. Ansoft high frequency structure simulator tutorial the dipole antenna april 2004. Pdf the size reduction of microstrip antennas is becoming an important. Using fractal metamaterial antenna of first and second order iterative mathematics, antenna is miniaturized by 58 and 75% along with improvement in bandwidth. It is one of several commercial tools used for antenna design, and the design. Keywords metamaterial, microstrip antenna, bandwidth, tunability, frequency range, gain. Because of their promise to provide engineerable permittivity, permeability, and index of refraction, metamaterials have drawn broad. Design and simulation of microstrip phase array antenna. Miniaturization of rectangular microstrip patch antenna using.
Metamaterials by using a single unit cell the antenna gives of 3. Dec 19, 2017 there is a pretty number of books available on amazon for hfss. Microwave electronics lab analysis and design of lefthanded metamaterial lenses using ansoft hfss anthony lai1, kevin m. A study of srr based microstrip antenna and their equivalent circuits have been carried out. Then antennas are fabricated and their properties are.
Hey everybody, im simulating a dng metamaterial in hfss 12. Hfss is a commercial finite element method solver for electromagnetic structures from ansys. Another application of the sr amm metamaterial is the patch antenna with a. This paper proposes microstrip patch antenna in which metamaterial properties applied at ground plane. Pdf design and analysis of metamaterial antenna using. The proposed metamaterial structu re along with microstrip patch antenna exhibits 32.
Pdf rectangular patch antenna array design at ghz. To miniaturize the antennae further a metamaterial based approach has been incorporated. The two day exclusive hands on training sessions in antenna design using hfss software with technical support from experts prof. The example will illustrate both the simplicity and power of. The proposed metamaterial mtm antenna is parametrically analyzed in commercial fem based simulation software hfss to get the optimum values for different antenna dimensions. Using topology optimization for the structure of proposed complementary resonator. A comparative analysis of different conventional and metamaterial based microstrip patch antenna.
Pdf metamaterials on antenna solutions researchgate. The antenna optimized for parameters length, gap, width, and rectangle of folded monopole antenna using the spiral structure. Designing of circular split ring resonator using hfss. It is then fabricated on the fr4 substrate and the performance of the fabricated antenna is measured using the vector network analyser vna. The example pattern design and transmission properties are shown in figures 5 a and 5 b, respectively. Miniaturization of microstrip patch antenna using metamaterial. And another metamaterial antenna using three unit cells gives a better gain of 5. Ansys hfss tutorial simulate and analyze an example of trace and via tianjian lu 02014 tianjian lu ece 546. Miniaturization of microstrip yagi array antenna using. All the simulations are done by using ansys hfss software.
Create infinite ground to create the infinite ground. Design, simulation and fabrication of an optimized microstrip antenna with metamaterial superstrate using particle swarm optimization nooshin feiz1, farzad mohajeri1, and davoud zari. A microstrip antenna consists of conducting patch on a ground plane separated by dielectric substrate. Microstrip patch antenna design santa clara university. Pdf high frequency structure simulator hfss tutorial. Miniaturization of rectangular microstrip patch antenna. In hfss desktop, click the on the standard toolbar, or select the menu item file new.
The effects of applying metamaterials in antenna design. Design and simulation of ultra wide band ulb patch antenna using hfss part 2 thanks for watching. A compact metamaterial inspired antenna operate at lte, bluetooth and wimax frequency band is introduced in this paper. The metamaterial unit cell using via and microstrip gaps is focused here. Miniaturization of microstrip patch antenna using csrr. Gain and bandwidth of microstrip patch antenna with split ring. Resonant frequency of the antenna10ghz relative permittivity of the substrate 2. Proper description of assigning the boundaries and.
Set solution type select the menu item hfss solution type choose driven terminal click the ok button analysis. These designs are simulated using high frequency structure simulator hfss tool. As the name state that there are several cut in rectangle so we take a rectangle with. In this paper, a coaxial feed circularly polarized square patch antenna is designed using the. A rectangular patch design equations are introduced and validated by well simulated results. General terms antenna theory, performance and design, analysis, characteristics, communication, wireless applications. Conventional antennas that are very small compared to the wavelength reflect most of the signal back to the source. The use of metamaterials in antenna design not only dramatically reduces the size of the antenna but can also improve other antenna parameters such as enhancing bandwidth, increasing gain, or generating multiband frequencies of. Apr 30, 2018 microstrips patch antenna design and stimulation in ansys hfss software. High frequency structure simulator for 3d electromagenetics hfss is a platform that includes multiple simulation technologies for component or system design.
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