Scribd
Upload
284 views21 pages

Antenna Design & Simulation Insights

The document discusses various applications of antenna simulation software including designing antennas, estimating performance, and exporting designs. It provides examples of simulating antennas on the human body, inside the body for medical devices, coupling between antennas, base station antenna arrays, radar response of aircraft, and lightning strikes on composite aircraft. The software can also be used to simulate emissions from electronics and compare simulations to measurements.

Uploaded by

Pho Duc Nam
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
284 views21 pages

Antenna Design & Simulation Insights

The document discusses various applications of antenna simulation software including designing antennas, estimating performance, and exporting designs. It provides examples of simulating antennas on the human body, inside the body for medical devices, coupling between antennas, base station antenna arrays, radar response of aircraft, and lightning strikes on composite aircraft. The software can also be used to simulate emissions from electronics and compare simulations to measurements.

Uploaded by

Pho Duc Nam
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd

Choosing an antenna from Antenna Magus

Antenna Magus
 Explore database
 Design antenna
 Synthesise array
 Estimate performance
 Export!

CST – COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | [Link]


Some Antenna Examples

CST – COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | [Link]


Antenna on Human Body

insets: partial body


model simulation
CST – COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | [Link]
BioMedical Application:Pacemaker inside Human Body

CST – COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | [Link]


Coupling / Interference Between Antennas
Antenna in mobile phone

In band coupling to WIFI


antenna, GPS coupling at 5G
operating freq

CST – COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | [Link]


Windscreen antenna

CST – COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | [Link]


Base Station Antenna Arrays
 Single-, dual-, & multiband-band antennas
 FET, MET, & RET – dual- & vertical polarized

CST – COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | [Link]


Nearfield propagation @5.9 GHz

10m

MLFMM

CST – COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | [Link]


Radar Response in Time-Domain
 Time domain field analysis of
1
22 m long aircraft
1 2 3 4
2

Incident plane wave pulse Farfield probe for E-field


CST – COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | [Link]
Range Profiling
 Very important output for RCS analysis

CST – COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | [Link]


RAM Coated Aircraft
 Monostatic RCS at 1 GHz
 Effect of RAM coating

Length: 720in (60λ)


Wingspan: 540in (45λ)
CST – COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | [Link]
Conducted Emission Example:
Power Electronics

CST – COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | [Link]


Prototype measurements

CST – COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | [Link]


LISN

DC Input

Port Placement
• All lumped components for
filtering are replaced by
ports

CST – COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | [Link]


Emission – PCB A

CST – COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | [Link]


A400M Lightning Analysis
Lightning CFRP
channel
Aluminum Composites
• Wing and main spars
• Tail, stabilizers and control
surfaces
• Ribs, spars and 'sword' of the
vertical stabilizer
• Rear cargo door and
undercarriage bays
• Propeller blades

30% CFRP Composite Airframe


CST – COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | [Link]
Magnetic Field at 1 MHz

CST – COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | [Link]


Radiated Emission Example:

CST – COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | [Link]


Simulation vs. Measurement

EM emissions induced by a DC/DC power converter.


G. Chiappori, S Baranowski, O Cohin,
Proc. of the 2014 International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC Europe 2014), Gothenburg, Sweden,
September 1-4, 2014
CST – COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | [Link]
Real PCB Differential Lines
Good Bad

CST – COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | [Link]


Results Comparison

Measurement Broadband 1V Simulation


CST – COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | [Link]

You might also like