CHRIST (Deemed to be University)

School of Engineering and Technology

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

EC432P ANETNNAS AND WAVE

PROPAGATION LABORATORY

LAB RECORD
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CONTENTS
Sl. No. Date Name of the Experiment Page No. Marks Faculty
Sign
MATLAB based experiments

1. 12/01/23 Matlab Study experiment 1-7

2. 12/01/23 Study of Microstrip Patch antenna 8-13

3. 2/2/23 Study of Waveguide 14-22

4. 2/2/23 Study of Helical Antenna 23-32

5. 9/2/23 Study of Linear Antenna Array, Effect of 33-39

Spacing Between Elements
6. 23/2/23 Study of Linear Antenna Array, Effect of 40-51
Variation in Number of Elements
7. 23/2/23 Study of Horn Antenna 52-59

HFSS based experiments

8. 9/3/23 Simulation and analysis of Rectangular 60-68
Microstrip Antenna with microstrip feed
9. 9/3/23 Simulation and analysis of Rectangular 69-78
Microstrip patch antenna with inset feed
10. 23/3/23 Simulation and analysis of Triangular 79-87
patch antenna with microstrip feed
11. 23/3/23 Simulation and analysis of Triangular 88-96
patch antenna with inset feed
12. 23/3/23 Simulation and analysis of Circular patch 97-105
antenna with microstrip feed
13. 23/3/23 Simulation and analysis of Circular patch 106-114
antenna with inset feed
Reg. No: 2160650 Name: Praditha

EXPT. No.: MATLAB and ANTENNA TOOLBOX Study Experiment

DATE:
TITLE: STUDY OF MATLAB FEATURES AND ANTENNA TOOLBOX
AIM: The aim of this experiment is to study MATLAB and its versatility for antenna
measurements using ANTENNA DESIGNER Toolbox.

INTRODUCTION
MATLAB, in short, MATrix LABoratory is a programming package specifically
designed for quick and easy scientific calculations and I/O. It has hundreds of built-in
functions for a wide variety of computations and many toolboxes designed for specific
research disciplines, including statistics, optimization, solution of partial differential
equations, data analysis.

LAUNCHING OF MATLAB
Start MATLAB by double clicking on the MATLAB icon in the applications folder, or
wherever it is. The MATLAB window will come up on the computer screen. This is the
window in which we can interact with MATLAB. The main window on the right is called
the Command Window. We can see the command prompt in this window, which looks
like >>. If this prompt is visible MATLAB is ready for us to enter a command. In the top
left corner, we can view the Workspace window. The Workspace window will show us
all variables that we are using in our current MATLAB session. When we first start up
MATLAB, the workspace is empty. In the bottom left corner, we can see the Command
History window, which simply gives a chronological list of all MATLAB commands that
we used before (if any), and the Current Directory window which shows us the contents
and location of the directory we are currently working in.

BASIC OPERATIONS

Sl.
Basic Functions and its Description
No.

>> ver ↩

1 version: This MATLAB function displays a header containing the

current MATLAB product family version number, license number, operating
system and the available toolboxes currently
 >>clc ↩
2
clear command window: It clears the command window

>>clear all ↩
3 It removes all variables from the current workspace, releasing them from system
memory

>>close all ↩
4
This command closes all the image windows that are currently open in MATLAB

5 >>a=3 ↩

It create a 1x1 array, or a scalar. Everything in MATLAB is stored as a matrix or an

array

6 >>who ↩

It lists all the variables used in the current session of MATLAB

7 >>whos ↩

It lists the variables and the size

8 >>help ↩

MATLAB online help facility

9 >> b=[1 2 3 4; 5 6 7 8; 9 10 11 12; 13 14 15 16] ↩

It creates a 4 x 4 matrix

Opening and closing square brackets are required for matrices larger than 1x1.

Entries in a row are separated by white space or commas

Semicolons (;) mark the ends of rows in the matrix

10 >>b ↩

If you want to know the value of the variable b

11 >>sum(b) ↩

Sums the values of each column

12 >>diag(b) ↩
 Produces all of the elements along the diagonal

13 >>b'↩

Transpose operator. The first column becomes the first row, the second column
becomes the second row and so on..

14 >>max(b) ↩

Produces the maximum values for each column

15 >>min(b) ↩

Produces the minimum values for each column

16 >>mean(b) ↩

Produces the average of each column

17 >>sum(b(:))↩

Produces the sum of all the values in b

18 >>b(1,4) ↩

Produces the element in the first row and the forth column

Note: MATLAB start at Index 1 not 0

19 >>b(1,5) ↩

It generate error message as Index exceeds matrix dimensions

20 >>b(1,5)=17↩

You can append additional column in the matrix

21 >>zeros(i,j) ↩

It creates an i x j matrix of zeros

22 >>ones(i,j) ↩
It creates an i x j matrix of ones

23 >>eye(i) ↩

It creates an i x i identity matrix (a matrix of zeros with ones on the diagonal)

24 >>h=1:1:10 ↩
 It created a row vector h with elements starting at 1 and increasing in steps of 1 up
to 10

25 >>h=1:10 ↩

By default the increment value is 1

26 >>h=8:-1:3 ↩

If the step size is negative the sequence decreases

27 >>a=1:10; ↩

It suppress the output however , variable a contains the value

28 >>A=[1,2;3,4] ↩

It generates 2x2 matrix

29 >>A=[1,2;3,4]; ↩

It suppress the output

30 >>exit ↩

It quits the MATLAB application

For specific technologies, MATLAB provides toolboxes, which add to the basic MATLAB
functionality. Some of the toolboxes include:
● Simulink
● 5G Toolbox
● Antenna Designer Toolbox
● Automated Driving Toolbox
● Communications Toolbox
● Computer Vision Toolbox
● Control System Toolbox
● DSP System Toolbox
● Deep Learning Toolbox
● Signal Processing Toolbox
● Image Processing Toolbox
● RF Toolbox
● Wavelet Toolbox
● WLAN Toolbox
ANTENNA DESIGNER TOOL BOX
The MATLAB has ANTENNA DESIGNER TOOLBOX in the signal processing and
communications category, which can be used for the design and analysis of some
standard antennas, such as rectangular waveguide, horn, folded dipole, V antenna
performances. Special microstrip antennas and arrays can also be designed and analyzed.
FEATURES OF ANTENNA DESIGNER TOOLBOX:
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:
Thus, the MATLAB, its features and its versatility in antenna measurements using
ANTENA DESIGNER TOOL BOX are studied.

MY INFERENCES:
The Antenna ToolBox in Matlab has so many types of Antennas
which are useful for further experiments in this lab . And the antennas play
a major role in communication and signal processing . Therefore we studied
MATLAB and its versatility for antenna measurements using ANTENNA
DESIGNER Toolbox.