Antenna Toolbox on Matlab

The easiest way to Design any Antenna Virtually.

The aim of this video is to tell people to use Antenna Toolbox so that he/she can easily decide which Antenna is best for there work.

Antenna Provided By Antenna Toolbox:

Dipole Antennas
Ex. Dipole antennas, bowtie antennas
Monopole Antennas
Ex. Monopole and op-hat monopole, inverted and coplanar inverted antennas
Loop Antennas
Ex. Circular and rectangular loop
Spiral Antennas
Ex. Archimedean and equiangular spiral
Patch Antennas
Ex. Rectangular and circular probe-fed patch, inset-fed rectangular patch
Slot Antennas
Ex. Slot, Vivaldi
Other Antennas
Ex. Helix, yagiUda, sector antenna, cloverleaf, phantom head analysis
Waveguides
Ex. Rectangular waveguide, rectangular horn antenna
Backing Structures
Rectangular and circular cavity, rectangular and circular reflector
Arrays
Antenna array construction, layout visualization
Dielectrics
Dielectric substrate selection and parameterization

If someone wants to create there own Antenna, they can do this using 'custom antenna'

For Antenna Array, You can choose the antenna from the available catalog or use custom elements. You can define the spacing between elements, change the orientation of the antennas, and specify the layout of the array.

Analysis, Design, and Tuning
Antenna Toolbox uses the method of moments to analyze antenna elements and arrays. You can compute port properties such as impedance, S-parameters, and voltage standing wave ratios (VSWR) to determine the resonance frequency of antennas or to study impedance matching conditions. In MIMO systems, you can estimate and simulate the effects of coupling between antenna elements by computing the multiport S-parameters of the antenna array.

Current and charge distributions on the surface of an antenna can be computed at different frequencies and then visualized. You can also inspect and control the density of the mesh used for the analysis.

The electromagnetic field can be computed at any point in space and at any frequency and can be visualized in 3D or in 2D over different planes. The far-field radiation pattern can be used to design isolated antennas and antenna arrays, and you can estimate the effects of adjacent structures by computing the array pattern of antenna elements when embedded in an array.

You can excite an antenna with a voltage source at the feed point, or you can solve the receiving antenna problem and compute the scattering solution using a plane wave excitation. You can connect lumped RLC elements to the surface of an antenna to tune it and improve its resonance.

You can explore the design space and optimize antennas and arrays to fulfill system specifications. For example, you can use Optimization Toolbox™ and Global Optimization Toolbox with Antenna Toolbox to design antennas and arrays with optimized patterns and matching characteristics.

System Integration and Simulation
Antenna and array analysis results can be used for the accurate end-to-end simulation of wireless transceivers from digital baseband to the antenna and back, including the effects of the transmission channel.

Antenna Toolbox can be used with Phased Array System Toolbox™ and Communications System Toolbox™ for the design of radar and MIMO communications systems. The complex radiation pattern of antenna elements that are isolated or embedded within an array can be applied in the development of beam forming and beam steering algorithms. With Antenna Toolbox, you can estimate the coupling between antenna elements, account for the edge effects of an array, and simulate MIMO channel performance, including antenna correlation.

The impedance and S-parameters of antennas and antenna arrays computed with Antenna Toolbox can be used for the design of matching networks using RF Toolbox™. The effects of the antenna loading on power transfer and signal-to-noise ratio in the RF front-end can be incorporated into the simulation of wireless communication systems using RF Blockset™.

RF Propagation
With Antenna Toolbox, you can visualize antenna sites for transmitters and receivers, inspect communication links, and compute coverage (signal strength), using propagation models for free space, weather, and more.

You can use map-based visualization tools to analyze different scenarios for radar and base station positioning while accounting for the Earth’s curvature on interactive geographical maps.