Mar 07, 2016 software used to design microstrip patch antenna hfss is commercial finite element method solver for electromagnetic structures from ansys corp. Metamaterial antennas will be very suitable to use in wlan both 2. I have design an antenna using meta material in hfss. Metamaterials in application to improve antenna parameters. 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. Design of dual band microstrip patch antenna using. In this way you will not run out of computational power. The obtained results show that the proposed antenna operates in the uwb band from 3. Antenna projects using hfss electronics electrical projects. The simulation results were validated with the actual measurements. Miniaturization of rectangular microstrip patch antenna using. All the metamaterial antennas are designed based on these substrate structures. In addition, metamaterial can be used to enhance the low gain and efficiency in conventional patch antenna, which is important in wireless communication. Miniaturization of microstrip patch antenna using metamaterial.
A compact dualband openended metamaterial antenna for. Figure 4 input impedance of simple microstrip patch antenna using hfss. All the simulation work is done by using cstmws software. Design and simulation of a microstrip leakywave antenna with. Jan 10, 2019 antenna efficiency was measured using the wheeler cap method 25. The antennas are designed on fr4 material and simulated results are provided by hfss software. Metamaterial unit cell square srr design using cst and. A dualband microstrip patch antenna is designed and analyzed using metamaterial artificial substrate. A metamaterialenabled design enhancing decadesold short. Antenna designs incorporating metamaterials can stepup the radiated power of an antenna.
Design of printed rectangular monopole antenna using hfss published on feb 6, 2015. Bandwidth enhancement of rmpa using 2 segment labyrinth. Using metamaterial the return loss has improved to 25 db at 2. In ansoft hfss software, we can use the optimization method to save time and get the results as expected. The proposed antenna is simulated by the hfss software. Should i assign the wave port excitation to the antenna or. As the name state that there are several cut in rectangle so we take a rectangle with. For verifying dng properties of proposed metamaterial. Metamaterial antennas are a class of antennas which use metamaterials to increase performance of miniaturized electrically small antenna systems. In this present work, design and analysis of patch antenna using metamaterial mtm structure is proposed for better improvement in the impedance bandwidth and reduction in the return loss at operating frequency 1. Proper description of assigning the boundaries and feeding mechanism was also mentioned. It is one of the several commercial tools used for antenna design.
A linearlypolarized aperture coupled patch antenna design is characterized and optimized using hfss antenna simulation software. In this paper, a rectangular microstrip patch antenna is designed using hfss software. In this chapter, it is shown that metamaterial mtm technology offers a solution to synthesize antennas with a small footprint with the added advantage of low cost and excellent radiation characteristics. This paper shows the design considerations of the proposed antenna as well as the simulated results of the same. Metamaterial unit cell square srr design using cst and hfss. By using hfss software this microstrip patch antenna was designed in cartesian co ordinate system. This video coantains design procedures of a square shaped metamaterial unit cell using cst and hfss.
This thesis focuses on the aperture coupled patch antenna due to the lack of fabrication and tuning documentation for the design of this antenna and its usefulness in arrays. The gain is relatively high above 3 db in the entire frequency band and the antenna has an acceptable quasiomnidirectional radiation pattern. An agilent e8362c pna functioned as the receiver, and the data was processed using the orbitfr v6. The acronym stands for high frequency structure simulator. A comparison between results of the two antennas is done. In designed antenna height and width of the patch is 30mm, 50mm. Acm is a widely used metamaterial in antenna design, it is used to mimic the behavior of pmc, which is not available in. Designed antenna has been incorporated with ushaped slot, meandered line inductance and a square stub. Jul 08, 2011 antenna characteristics such as, scattering parameters farfield radiation patterns with and without the presence of mng are provided. Metamaterial unit cell square srr design using cst and hfss part 1. It is observed that upon incorporation, the bandwidth widens to around 600% and vswr improves by approx. Design and simulation of a microstrip leakywave antenna. Design of dielectric resonator antenna dra in hfss full hd duration.
It is attractive for multipleband applications, including wcdma, wimax, bluetooth, and wibro. Ansoft hfss has been used to design and analyse the rmpa rectangular microstrip patch antenna with design frequency 9. Design and simulation of rectangular microstrip patch. The best software for antennas design as far as i know, hfss and cst are well known, for all types. Metamaterial antennas for wireless communications transceivers. The acronym stands for highfrequency structure simulator. Dualband microstrip patch antenna miniaturization using. Design, simulation and fabrication of an optimized microstrip antenna with metamaterial superstrate using particle swarm optimization nooshin feiz1, farzad mohajeri1, and davoud zari.
Design of an ultra wideband antenna using split ring r. Figure 5 gain for the simple rectangular patch antenna using hfss. The simulation results indicate that the proposed antenna can scan the space between the angles of 20 to 35 in the frequency range of 3. Standard antennas need to be at least half the size of the signal wavelength to operate efficiently. The designed antenna has a resonating frequency of 2. By integrating virtual prototyping into the design process, kymeta was able to gain insight into the functioning of the antenna, minimise the number of. I am new to designing meta material antenna in hfss. Also they have specific servers which ensure faster downloads, maybe you can find it there too or you can torrent it. Ijiset international journal of innovative science. Can you provide any material to design metamaterial antenna in. For simulation purpose ansoft hfss software has been used. The effects of applying metamaterials in antenna design.
Calculations and optimization of resonant frequencies are done using hfss software. Using remcom s xfdtd software, simulations of devices containing these special materials may be performed. Therefore, the design of miniature antennas for application in wireless communication systems is highly challenging using traditional means. Proposed metamaterial structure is significantly reduced the return loss and increased the bandwidth and. Metamaterial superstrate antenna design with gain enhancement. How to simulate metamaterial antenna using hfss quora. Hfss is one of several commercial tools used for antenna design, and the design of complex radio frequency electronic circuit elements including filters, transmission lines, and packaging. Here metamaterial antenna using unit cell is proposed, designed and simulated using cst microwave studio software. Frequency structure simulator hfss and cst microwave studio cst.
The substrate material is fr4 with relative permittivity. Hfss metamaterial antenna design guide i have design an antenna using meta material in hfss. Antenna characteristics such as, scattering parameters farfield radiation patterns with and without the presence of mng are provided. Many techniques are used for the design of metamaterial antenna.
Design and simulations are conducted using ansofts hfss software which is based on the finite element method fem. Simulating graphenebased antenna using hfss electrical. In order to follow the steps outlined in this example, verify that the following tool options are set. Design of square split ring resonator shaped metamaterial structure for enhancing the. Recently, i am learning to simulate the graphenebased antenna using hfss software. All the simulations are done by using ansys hfss software. Metamaterials include such items as negative index materials, electronic band gap structures and frequency selective surfaces. It is clearly observed that the antenna gain and bandwidth has improved significantly by employing proposed ssrr based metamaterial structure at 3.
Metamaterial based substrate is designed using square split ring resonator ssrr and wire strip. Design and simulation of rectangular microstrip patch antenna. Metamaterial antenna the h shaped interconnected antenna is as shown in figure 12. A novel metamaterialinspired patch antenna is proposed, wherein a 2segment srr labyrinth metamaterial is embedded inside the antenna substrate. In this figure rhs antenna is the original antenna while lhs is the modified antenna which is used with the metamaterial antenna.
Uwb metamaterialloaded antenna for cband applications. What is the best software used for antenna design and. By integrating virtual prototyping into the design process, kymeta was able to gain insight into the functioning of the antenna, minimise the number of real prototypes required and reduce. Fr4 substrate is used to design the patch antenna array as well as metamaterial superstrate and simulations are done using fem based software hfss and a mom based full wave mentor graphics ie3d simulator. The antenna is tuned to work at two resonating frequencies in the frequency range from 1. The area of the proposed patch antenna is reduced about 73. Dec 03, 2014 this video coantains design procedures of a square shaped metamaterial unit cell using cst and hfss. Numerous materials exist that have unusual or frequency dependent properties. A novel metamaterial inspired patch antenna is proposed, wherein a 2segment srr labyrinth metamaterial is embedded inside the antenna substrate. The antenna configuration is based on a onelayer patch design. Hfss metamaterial nearfield simulation hello, try to use he field symmetry in your structure to reduce the structure size in hfss and in this way you will simulate half of your actual structure and ll get results of the whole structure. Design of dual band microstrip patch antenna using metamaterial.
In this paper, we try to increase spatial scanning using the substrate of the metamaterial, in addition to minimizing the dimensions of the antenna. Miniaturization of rectangular microstrip patch antenna. Since the designed antenna structure has been applied with openended boundary condition, so the. The design of the mng unit cell and its effective constitutive parameters are also provided.
A conventional microstrip patch antenna using pair of slots is also designed which resonates at 1. Metamaterial unit cell square srr design using cst and hfss part 2 duration. Design of metamaterial unit cell and its characterization using effective medium theory. Create a box around your single metamaterial element, such as an split ring resonator. Left handed metamaterial design using hfss and designer rf. In this paper, dual band microstrip patch antenna design using metamaterial for mobile gsm and wimax application is introduced. The unit cells of metamaterials can be used as radiation components, a part or loaded part of the ground plane of antenna. The newest metamaterial antennas radiate as much as 95 percent of an input radio signal. To achieve broadband coverage with a simple structure, an antenna was developed using ris metamaterial. Mutual coupling reduction of dualband printed monopoles. Hfss stands for high frequency structural simulator. Hfss is a commercial finite element method solver for electromagnetic structures from ansys. The parameters evaluated were gain, beamwidth and return loss. How can i simulate metamaterials based antenna in hfss.
Design metamaterial antennas using cst studio suite. The whole structures are placed on an infinite ground plane. All ansoft software files are ascii text and can be sent conveniently by email. Uwb, miniaturized and directive metamaterial loaded antenna for satellite applications. An electrical model to design a metamaterial left hand. The use of metamaterials in antenna design is an attractive trend not only to reduce size, improve the power gain, enhance bandwidth, but also to design multifrequencyband antennas 46. Design and analysis of micro strip antenna using hfss software. According to my understanding, since there is no graphene material defined in the hfss software, we need to define the material ourselves in the hfss software. The antenna achieves a wide operating frequency band at the lower frequencies. Design of metamaterial loaded microstrip patch antenna the proposed design is based on rectangle shape. Ghz depending on the geometric specifications of ssrr, strip line, radiating patch.
Using metamaterials in antenna design may lead to reduced size, improve gain, enhance bandwidth or to create multiband antenna. What is the best software used for antenna design and simulation. Design, simulation and fabrication of an optimized. Ghz depending on the geometric specifications of ssrr, strip line, radiating patch, and feed location point. At 300 mhz, for instance, an antenna would need to be half a meter. Depending on the technical requirements of the designed antenna, the metamaterials will be used as different functions of the antenna. Dissertation part1 presentation on design of rectangular patch antenna using metamaterial substrate by prateek kumar from rustamji institute of technology border security force tekanpur gwalior m. This article investigates on a compact dualband openended metamaterial antenna for microwave frequency applications. Dec 02, 2018 metamaterial fss unit cell design using hfss. Antenna design is carried out using the transmission line method. Fig 6 design of single patch antenna in hfss simulation results the 2x2 patch array antenna is simulated using ansoft hfss. According to my understanding, since there is no graphene material defined in the hfss software, we need to define the material ourselves in.
It includes instructions to create, simulate, and analyze a probe feed patch antenna. Design, simulation and fabrication of an optimized microstrip. Size reduction of microstrip patch antenna by using meta. Here metamaterial antenna using unit cell is proposed. Using remcoms xfdtd software, simulations of devices containing these special materials may be performed metamaterials include such items as negative index materials, electronic band gap structures and frequency selective surfaces. As hfss is one of the most software used to design lefthand antenna, we used it for simulation of our proposed reader antenna. Metamaterials by using a single unit cell the antenna gives of 3. However, this class of antenna incorporates metamaterials, which are materials engineered with novel, often microscopic, structures to. This paper elucidates antenna parameter optimization using 2 segment labyrinth metamaterial embedded in antenna substrate at high frequency thz. Uwb, miniaturized and directive metamaterial loaded. Computer simulation technology has revealed that kymeta used the cst studio suite electromagnetic em simulation tool to design a range of lightweight portable antennas for mobile satellite communications. After that optimize your antenna geometry to obtain your goal.
Feb 06, 2015 design of rectangular patch anteena using metamaterial substrate 1. Calculations are carried using hfss software, which is based on finite element. Hao, characterization of microstrip patch antennas on metamaterial substrates loaded with complementary splitring resonators, microwave and. Hfss metamaterial patch antenna free pdf file sharing. Performance enhancement of patch antenna array for 5. Design of square split ring resonator shaped metamaterial.
The metamaterial antenna is reduced 77 % the antenna size. Antenna efficiency was measured using the wheeler cap method 25. Design of pifa antenna with metamaterial superstrate at 2. Metamaterial fss unit cell design using hfss part 1 youtube.
Their purpose, as with any electromagnetic antenna, is to launch energy into free space. What are some good software tools for antenna design and simulation. Microstrip patch antenna design using hfss duration. The nicolsonrossweir nrw method has been used to retrieve the. This rectangular patch antenna is simulated and tested using hfss. One of the reason is that chances of getting any virus is very less.
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