Antenna Toolbox™ provides functions and apps for the design, analysis, and visualization of antenna elements and arrays. You can design standalone antennas and build arrays of antennas using predefined elements with parameterized geometry, arbitrary planar structures, or custom 3D structures described with STL files.
Antenna Toolbox uses electromagnetic solvers, including the method of moments (MoM), to compute impedance, current distribution, efficiency, and near-field and far-field radiation patterns. To improve the antenna design, you can use manual methods or use the optimization methods provided in the toolbox. Antenna geometry and analysis results can be visualized in 2D and 3D. The toolbox lets you integrate antenna array patterns into wireless systems for simulating beamforming and beam steering algorithms. The impedance analysis results can be used to design matching networks for integration with the RF front-end. You can install the antennas on large platforms such as vehicles or aircraft and analyze the effects of the structure on antenna performance. You can import STL and Gerber files to analyze a pre-existing structure or export them to share or manufacture your design. A site viewer enables you to visualize antenna coverage on a 3D terrain map using a variety of propagation models, including ray tracing.
This example shows how to construct, visualize and analyze the antenna elements in the Antenna Toolbox.
This example shows how to construct, visualize, and analyze an antenna array from the Antenna Toolbox.
This example shows how to visualize surface currents on the half- wavelength dipole and how to observe the individual current components.
This example shows how to visualize the far fields for antennas and antenna arrays.
This example shows how to calculate and visualize the near-fields for antennas.
This example demonstrates the use of infinite array analysis to model the behavior of a single element - the unit cell embedded in the array[1] - [3].
This example shows how to compute and visualize outdoor wireless coverage between a transmitter and receiver.
Antenna array designer app workflow tutorial.
This example shows how to interact with a polar plot created using polarpattern
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Input impedance, resonance, return loss, reflection coefficient, bandwidth.
Charge distribution, current distribution
Radiation pattern, E-H fields, beamwidth, polarization, axial ratio
Active or scan impedance, array factor and pattern multiplication, coupling matrix, isolated or embedded element pattern.
Side lobe control, beam scanning.
Grating lobes are the maxima of the main beam, as predicted by the pattern multiplication theorem.
Method of Moments Solver for Metal Structures
Method of Moments computation technique for metal antennas.
Method of Moments Solver for Metal and Dielectric Structures
Method of Moments computation technique for metal and dielectric antennas.
Hybrid MoM-PO Method for Metal Antennas with Large Scatterers
Hybrid method of moments (MoM) physical optics (PO) computational technique in Antenna Toolbox allows you to model antennas near large scatterers such as parabolic reflectors.
Physical optics (PO) solver in Antenna Toolbox allows you to solve for the RCS of an object.
Antenna Toolbox feed model.
Fast Multipole Method for Large Structures
Fast Multipole Method (FMM) for analysis of large structures.
Classify antennas based on radiation pattern or feeding mechanism
Antenna Toolbox Coordinate System
Rectangular and spherical coordinate system
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Default radiation patterns of antennas and arrays