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Wave Propagation & Antennas(TE-332)

7thSemester

LAB EXPERIMENT NO.19

Planar Monopole Antenna Design

Student 1 Name: Roll No:

Student 2 Name: Roll No:

Student 3 Name: Roll No:

Lab Instructor Signatures: Date:

Marks: Student 1 ________________, Student 2 _________________, Student 3 ______________

OBJECTIVE:

This Lab is intended to show you how to create, simulate, and analyze a ‘Planar Monopole Antenna’
using wave port in Ansoft HFSS design environment.

INTRODUCTION:
 A monopole antenna is a radio antenna that is one half of a dipole antenna, almost always
mounted above some sort of ground plane.
 One half of the dipole is replaced by the ground plane. (1/4 λ)
o Earth.
o Car roof or trunk lid or other metal surface.
o Radial wires.
 Radiation pattern of monopole antenna is ‘omni-directional’.
Excercise1
 Begin a Design
To begin working with geometries, you must insert an HFSS design. Right-Click the project file and
select Insert -> Insert HFSS Design from the menu.

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 From the HFSS menu, select solution type and then driven model.
 Also select unit as ‘mm’ from ‘Modeler’ menu.

 Let’s start by creating the ‘Substrate’ using the Draw box button from the toolbar.

 Give the name ‘substrate’ to this object. Assign the material FR4_epoxy and then click OK.

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 Now, under the command tab enter the following information:

o Position: 0,0,0
o Xsize:75mm
o Ysize:100mm
o Zsize: -0.254mm

 Draw the rectangle and enter the following:

o Position: 35.6,0,0 mm
o Xsize: 3.8mm
o Ysize: 41mm

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 Draw a rectangle with the following dimensions:

o Position: 12.5,41,0 mm
o Xsize: 50mm
o Ysize: 56mm

 Draw a rectangle 3 and enter the following:

o Position: 12.5,75,0 mm
o Xsize: 40mm
o Ysize:10mm

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 Draw a rectangle 4 and enter the following commands:

o Position : 22.5,53,0 mm
o Xsize: 40 mm
o Ysize: 10mm

 Now select rectangle 2 and rectangle 3 and press ‘subtract’ button from toolbar.

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 Select rectangle 2 and rectangle 4 and press the ‘subtract’ button again. Your design will appear
as:

 Now select the rectangle 1 and rectangle 2 and unite them by clicking on ‘unite’ button from toolbar.
 Rename the ‘rectangle 1’ as ‘Antenna’.
 Click on ‘rectangle’ from toolbar and create it by entering the following:
o Position: 0.3,0,0 mm
o Xsize: 35mm
o Ysize: 30mm

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 Again select a rectangle from toolbar section and enter the following:
o Position: 39.7,0,0 mm
o Xsize: 35mm
o Ysize: 30mm

 Rotate your design as:

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 In order to assign the port, select the plane as ZX and draw a rectangle.

 Draw the rectangle again. Rename ‘Rectangle 7’ as ‘port’ and enter the following:
o Position: 29.5,0,2.5 mm
o Xsize: 16 mm
o Zsize: -5 mm

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 Select the plane ‘XY’ and draw a box for radiation.

 Rename the box as ‘Rad_Box’ and enter the following in command window:
o Position: 0, 100, -40 mm
o Xsize: 75 mm
o Ysize: -100mm
o Zsize: 80mm

 Change the transparency of ‘Rad_Box’ to 0.8.

 Select faces of ‘Rad_Box’ and assign ‘Radiation’ boundary.
 Select ‘Rectangle 5’ and ‘Rectangle 6’ and assign the boundary ‘Perfect E’.
 Select the ‘Antenna’ and assign boundary ‘Perfect E’.
 Assign waveport to ‘port’ structure.

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o Click on ‘Renormalize all modes’ and click finish.

 Now, from the project explorer select Analysis> Add solution setup.
o Solution frequency : 1.6 GHz
o Maximum number of passes: 20

 From the project explorer, select Setup1>Add Sweep and enter the following:

 Click Ok.

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 Before running the analysis, always verify the project by selecting from the 3D toolbar. If
everything is correct the user should see:

 Now analyze the structure by clicking on

 Generate the report for S-parameter, VSWR and 3D polar plot for gain.

Question: Change the solution frequency from 1.6 GHz to 5 GHz and notice the
change in s parameter VSWR and gain plot.

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