CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Purpose: 1. Understanding how to create and analyze an antenna @9.4 GHz New Projects - Project Templates Project templates are the preferred way to customize CST STUDIO SUITE automatically for a certain type of application. CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 If you haven't defined a project template for your application click on "Create a new project" to create one. Your already defined project templates are listed in the section "Project Templates". Click on the Create Project Antennas Template Click on Antennas CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Click on Next Type of Antenna Click on Planar CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Click on Next Solver Type Click on Time Domain CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Click on Next Units CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Click on Next Summary of Project Template CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Click on Finish User Interface CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Let us show you... What we need: 1) Materials 2) Patch Radiating Element 3) Substrate Dielectric 4) Ground Plane Design of Patch Antenna:Information CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 4) Ground Plane 5) Coax Connector Excitation Important: Operating frequency of the antenna For tutorial purpose we have already calculated the parameters responsible for designing the patch antenna at operating frequency of 9.4 GHz Material Assignment: Click on load from Library CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Click on Use filter Type Teflon in the Material tab and choose the Teflon material as highlighted and please do the same for copper and load them. Material Assignment: CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Click on Use filter Type Rogers RT 5880 in the Material tab and choose the ROGERS material as highlighted. Once you load them you can see the new material added in the navigation tree. Patch Antenna Construction: Substrate Go to the 'Modeling' ribbon tab and create a brick with Rogers RT5880 . Click on Escape button Type the below values in the opened window Click on brick button CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 L= 21.169 ts = 1.5 Patch Antenna Construction: Ground Plane Click on picks under Modeling Toolbar Pick Face and select back face of the substrate CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Move the cursor on to the back part of the substrate and it will highlight automatically the face. Double click on the face and it will highlight the face as shown above in red color. If it doesnt highlight the face. Please repeat the above step again. Patch Antenna Construction: Ground Plane CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Click on extrude button and it pops out new window and type the shown values. You should see a brown color on the back side of the substrate once this operation is over. Patch (Radiating Element) Construction: Pick top face of the dielectric brick by using pick option under Modeling Picks Pick Face Activating and Aligning the local co- ordinate system CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Press S or F and move the cursor on to the front part of the substrate and it will highlight the face automatically. Double click on the face and it will highlight the face as shown above in red color. Once it gets highlighted go to modeling tab and choose the align WCS option as shown in this slide. Patch (Radiating Element) Construction: Go to the 'Modeling' ribbon tab and create a brick with PEC Material. Lp : 9.79 Wp : 12.6 T : 0.017 Click on brick button CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 T : 0.017 Click on escape button in the key pad of your computer Coaxial Feed: Inner Pin CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Pick the mid point of the patch in the lower edge as highlighted in yellow color. Now select Align WCS with selected point. Coaxial Feed: Inner Pin Dimensions Click on escape button CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 rad=0.45 mm Offset=1 mm ts and t already defined Click on brick button Coaxial Feed: Dielectric Cylinder Turn the model to the back side of the substrate. A cylinder would have been protruded back with defined dimensions. CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 STEP 1: Pick bottom face of inner Pin and Align WCS on the selected face Dielectric Cylinder: Dimensions Click on cylinder button CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Inner dielectric cylinder is created and highlighted in yellow color Press Escape Boolean Operation Select ground from Components Tree Click on BooleanChoose Insert and then select diel_cyl_1. CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Coaxial Feed: Outer Conductor Press S on the keyboard and now move the cursor onto the outer face of the dielectric cylinder it will highlight automatically. Double click on the outer face and align WCS on the selected face. CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Click on Extrude button and type the values shown Frequency Range CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Click on Frequency and type the shown values Mesh Settings Click on Global Properties CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Click on Specials Excitation: Wave Guide Port Go to the back side of the substrate and now press S or F and choose the bottom face of the dielectric cylinder. Inset view of the selected face CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Waveguide Port Setup CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Now press the wave guide port icon and it automatically places the waveguide port. Boundary Conditions CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Now press the icon boundaries and choose the above boundary conditions and then press ok button. Field Monitors Go to the field monitor tab CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Go to the field monitor tab as shown below. Now right click on the field monitor it would show a new field monitor as high lighted Click on Frequency and type 9.4 in the frequency tab and choose E field and press ok. Now click on Farfield/RCS and then press ok. Start the Solver Now go to Home tab and Press the T solver button. CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 the T solver button. It opens a new window as shown in this slide. Now choose the same settings and press start button. Reflection Coefficient of Patch Antenna CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Click on the S- Parameters folder and click on plus symbol and it will display the S1,1 . Click on the S1,1 and it will display automatically the above result which is called reflection coefficient of the antenna. E- Field Results Click on 2D Results: Click on E field: Choose Abs of E field CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Far Field (Radiation Pattern) Click on Farfields: Click on Farfield (f=9.4)[1] CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Far Field (Radiation Pattern) CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Optimization of Feed Position Click on Optimizer tab and it will open the shown CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 it will open the shown window. Now choose the offset and click on the small window present beside offset parameter. It will put a cross mark once you activate the small window. Goal for Optimizer Click on Goals Press on the Add New Goal button and it will open a new window . Now click on the result name arrow button and it will show various options. Choose the S11 template. In goal click on the arrow and select S1,1 template assign following condition: Move Min to 9.4 GHz CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Final Optimized Result CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 CST MWS Standard Workflow Choose a project template. Create your model. parameters + geometry + materials Define ports. Set the frequency range. CST COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY | www.cst.com | Jul-14 Set the frequency range. Specify boundary and symmetry conditions. Define monitors. Check the mesh. Run the simulation.