Workflow Example

Patch Antenna Simulation

Purpose:
1. Understanding how to create and
analyze an antenna @9.4 GHz

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Project templates are the preferred way to customize CST STUDIO
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Click on the Create

Project

Your already defined project If you haven't defined a project template for your
templates are listed in the application click on "Create a new project" to create
section "Project Templates". one.

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Antennas Template

Click on Antennas

Click on Next

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Type of Antenna

Click on Planar

Click on Next

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Solver Type

Click on Time
Domain

Click on Next

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Units

Click on Next

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Summary of Project Template

Click on Finish

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 User Interface

Let us show you...

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 Design of Patch Antenna:Information
What we need:

1) Materials
2) Patch – Radiating Element
3) Substrate – Dielectric
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

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 Material Assignment:

Click on load from

Library

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.

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 Material Assignment:

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.

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 Patch Antenna Construction: Substrate
Go to the 'Modeling' ribbon tab and create a brick with Rogers RT5880 .
Type the below values in the
opened window

Click on brick
button Click on Escape
button

L= 21.169
ts = 1.5

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Patch Antenna Construction: Ground Plane
 Click on picks under Modeling Toolbar  Pick Face and select back
face of the substrate

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 doesn’t highlight
the face. Please repeat the above step again.

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Patch Antenna Construction: Ground Plane

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.

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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

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.

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 Patch (Radiating Element) Construction:
Go to the 'Modeling' ribbon tab and create a brick with PEC Material.

Click on brick
button
Lp : 9.79
Wp : 12.6
T : 0.017

Click on escape button in

the key pad of your
computer

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 Coaxial Feed: Inner Pin

Pick the mid point of the patch in the lower edge as highlighted in yellow color.
Now select Align WCS with selected point.

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 Coaxial Feed: Inner Pin Dimensions

Click on escape
button

Click on brick
button

rad=0.45 mm
Offset=1 mm
ts and t already
defined

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 Coaxial Feed: Dielectric Cylinder

Turn the model to the back side of the

substrate. A cylinder would have been
protruded back with defined
dimensions.

STEP 1: Pick bottom face of inner Pin and Align WCS on the selected face
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 Dielectric Cylinder: Dimensions

Click on
cylinder
button

Press
Escape

Inner dielectric cylinder is

created and highlighted in
yellow color

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 Boolean Operation
Select ground from Components Tree  Click on Boolean Choose Insert and
then select diel_cyl_1.

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 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.

Click on
Extrude button
and type the
values shown

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 Frequency Range

Click on Frequency and

type the shown values
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Mesh Settings
Click on Global Properties

Click on Specials

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 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

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 Waveguide Port Setup

Now press the wave guide port icon and it

automatically places the waveguide port.

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Boundary Conditions

Now press the icon boundaries and choose the above boundary
conditions and then press ok button.

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Field Monitors

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.

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Start the Solver

Now go to Home tab and Press

the T solver button.

It opens a new window as

shown in this slide. Now choose
the same settings and press
start button.

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Reflection Coefficient of Patch Antenna

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.

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E- Field Results
Click on 2D Results: Click on E field: Choose Abs of E
field

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Far Field (Radiation Pattern)
Click on Farfields: Click on Farfield (f=9.4)[1]

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Far Field (Radiation Pattern)

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 Optimization of Feed Position

Click on Optimizer tab and

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.

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 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

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Final Optimized Result

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CST MWS – Standard Workflow
 Choose a project template.
 Create your model.
 parameters + geometry + materials
 Define ports.
 Set the frequency range.
 Specify boundary and symmetry conditions.
 Define monitors.
 Check the mesh.
 Run the simulation.

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