Dipole Antennas
Dipole antennas are also known as linear wire antennas. Dipoles are balanced antennas and are the most fundamental form of antennas. A standard dipole antenna has an omnidirectional radiation pattern. Dipole antennas are used in various applications such as in phased arrays and feeding sources to larger antennas.
The dipole antenna in this catalog supports AI-based
tuning and analysis. For more details, see design and AIAntenna documentation.
Dipole Antenna Catalog
Apps
| Antenna Designer | Design, visualize, and analyze antennas |
| Antenna Array Designer | Design, visualize, and analyze arrays |
Objects
bowtieRounded | Create planar bowtie dipole antenna with rounded edges |
bowtieTriangular | Create planar bowtie dipole antenna |
biquad | Create biquad or double-biquad antenna |
dipole | Create regular or AI-based strip dipole antenna |
dipoleBlade | Create blade dipole antenna |
dipoleCrossed | Crossed dipole or turnstile antenna |
dipoleCycloid | Create cycloid dipole antenna |
dipoleCylindrical | Create cylindrical dipole antenna (Since R2021a) |
dipoleFolded | Create folded dipole antenna |
dipoleHelix | Create regular or AI-based helical dipole antenna |
dipoleHelixMultifilar | Create balanced bifilar or quadrafilar dipole helix antenna without circular ground plane |
dipoleJ | Create J-dipole antenna |
dipoleMeander | Create meander dipole antenna |
dipoleVee | Create V-dipole antenna |
rhombic | Create a rhombic antenna (Since R2020b) |
sectorInvertedAmos | Create inverted Amos sector antenna |
wireStack | Create single or multi-feed wire antenna |
Functions
show | Display antenna, array structures, shapes, or platform |
info | Display information about antenna, array, or platform |
cylinder2strip | Cylinder equivalent width approximation |
strip2cylinder | Calculate equivalent radius approximation for strip |
design | Create antenna, array, or AI-based antenna resonating at specified frequency |
Featured Examples
Crossed-Dipole (Turnstile) Antenna and Array
The turnstile antenna invented in 1936 by Brown [1] is a valuable tool to create a circularly-polarized pattern (RHCP or LHCP). It is commonly used in mobile communications.
Modeling Wire Antenna and Arrays
Model V-dipole wire antennas and arrays using the wire basis function wirestack. This workflow eliminates the wire to strip approximation or the strip basis function you need to perform when converting strip structures to wire antennas. You can also use this workflow to model all the antenna elements from the dipole and loop antenna catalog families.
Wideband Blade Dipole Antenna and Array
The analysis of a blade dipole as a single element and in a 2-by-2 array with emphasis on its wideband behavior.
Analysis of Biquad Yagi for Wi-Fi Applications
BiquaYagi for Wi-FI applications.
Sector Antenna for 2.4GHz Wi-Fi
Design an inverted Amos sector antenna for Wi-Fi application.
