Application Examples

Entries in Antenna Design (14)

Thursday
29Nov1990

10-Turn Helical Antenna

thumb_6 A 10-turn helical antenna is simulated in XFDTD to demonstrate the far-field circular polarization plotting capabilities of the software.


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Thursday
29Nov1990

Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antenna for WLAN Analyzed With XFdtd

circularlypolarizedmicrostripantenna_clip_image014A circularly polarized microstrip antenna is simulated in XFDTD and return loss results are compared to measurements.


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Thursday
29Nov1990

Complex Dipole Impedance

4 This example shows the ability of XFDTD to import complicated CAD files, mesh them, and produce accurate results.


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Monday
18May2009

Corner Reflector

 A comparison of XGtd®and FDTD calculated antenna gain for a half-wave dipole inside a corner reflector.


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Thursday
29Nov1990

Dual Frequency Inverted FL Antenna in XF7

2.4ghzccm-t.jpg Accurate results are easily obtained after generating the antenna using the XFdtd® 7.0 sketching tools.


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Thursday
29Nov1990

Horn Antenna

An optimum gain pyramidal horn antenna (see Antenna Theory and Design by W. Stutzman and G. Thiele, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1981, pgs 413-415) was simulated using XFDTD.


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Thursday
29Nov1990

Horn Antenna Using MPI

horn_geometry The same horn antenna geometry shown in other XFDTD examples on our web site is used here to demonstrate the ability of the MPI version of XFDTD.


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Thursday
29Nov1990

M-28 Aircraft

m28example_clip_image013Case Study: Using XFdtd® to Position Antennas on an Aircraft.


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Monday
18May2009

Monopole On A Box

xgdtd_monopole_fig1This example considers the far zone antenna gain patterns from a 0.125 m monopole antenna situated on top of a metal box.


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Wednesday
30Sep2009

Optimally Placing an Antenna on a Vehicle

thumb_6 Modern vehicles are equipped with numerous antennas for
various applications.  Determining the optimal location for a new antenna is not always a straightforward endeavor.  XF is used to determine a location that maximizes electric field strength in front of the vehicle.

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Thursday
29Nov1990

Patch Antenna in Body

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In this example XFDTD is used to compute the input impedance, radiation gain pattern, and SAR of a patch antenna embedded inside a human body.


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Thursday
29Nov1990

Thin Wire Dipole Antenna

 The XFDTD "thin wire" material is useful for simulating wire elements which have diameters much less than the cell size.


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Thursday
29Nov1990

Three Patch Array

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The ability of XFDTD to generate arrays is used in this example of a three patch antenna array.


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Thursday
29Nov1990

Vivaldi Antenna Geometry

 See the results of a balanced antipodal Vivaldi antenna drawn in AutoCAD and run in XFDTD.


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