metal

Conductor material

Since R2021a

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Description

Metal used as a conductor in the PCB components.

Creation

Syntax

m = metal(material)
m = metal(PropertyName=Value)

Description

m = metal(material) returns a metal object used as a conductor in the PCB components. You can specify a material from the MetalCatalog. The default value for material is perfect electric conductor (PEC).

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m = metal(PropertyName=Value) returns the metal based on the properties specified by one or more name-value pairs.

Input Arguments

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Material from the metal catalog, specified as a metal from the MetalCatalog. The default material is perfect electric conductor (PEC), which has infinite conductivity and zero thickness.

Example: "Iron"

Data Types: char

Properties

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Name of the metal material you want to use as a conductor, specified as a character vector.

Example: Name="Iron"

Data Types: char | string

Conductivity of the metal material, specified as a scalar in Siemens per meter(S/m). If you set "Conductivity" to Inf, you must set "Thickness" to 0.

Example: Conductivity=4.8e06

Data Types: double

Thickness of the metal material along the default z-axis, specified as a scalar in meters.

Example: Thickness=0.26e-6

Data Types: double

Examples

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Open Live Script

Create a microstrip transmission line with copper conductor.

mline = microstripLine;

Create a copper metal conductor.

m = metal('copper')
m = 
  metal with properties:

            Name: 'Copper'
    Conductivity: 59600000
       Thickness: 3.5560e-05

For more materials see catalog

Change the microstrip transmission line conductor to copper.

mline.Conductor = m
mline = 
  microstripLine with properties:

              Length: 0.0200
               Width: 0.0050
              Height: 0.0016
    GroundPlaneWidth: 0.0300
           Substrate: [1×1 dielectric]
           Conductor: [1×1 metal]
          IsShielded: 0

View the microstrip transmission line.

show(mline)

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object with title microstripLine element, xlabel x (mm), ylabel y (mm) contains 6 objects of type patch, surface. These objects represent Copper, feed, Teflon.

Version History

Introduced in R2021a

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