Choosing an antenna from Antenna Magus

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Some Antenna Examples

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Antenna on Human Body

insets: partial body

model simulation
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BioMedical Application:Pacemaker inside Human Body

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Coupling / Interference Between Antennas
Antenna in mobile phone

In band coupling to WIFI

antenna, GPS coupling at 5G
operating freq

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Windscreen antenna

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

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Nearfield propagation @5.9 GHz

10m

MLFMM

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 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

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Range Profiling
 Very important output for RCS analysis

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

Length: 720in (60λ)

Wingspan: 540in (45λ)
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 Conducted Emission Example:
Power Electronics

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Prototype measurements

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 LISN

DC Input

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

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Emission – PCB A

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 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

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Magnetic Field at 1 MHz

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 Radiated Emission Example:

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 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
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Real PCB Differential Lines
Good Bad

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Results Comparison

Measurement Broadband 1V Simulation

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