% % Tutorials / Patch Antenna Phased Array % % Description at: % % Tested with % - Matlab 2011a % - Octave 4.0 % - openEMS v0.0.33 % % References: % [1] Y. Yusuf and X. Gong, “A low-cost patch antenna phased array with % analog beam steering using mutual coupling and reactive loading,” IEEE % Antennas Wireless Propag. Lett., vol. 7, pp. 81–84, 2008. % [2] S. Otto, S. Held, A. Rennings, and K. Solbach, % "Array and multiport antenna farfield simulation using % EMPIRE, MATLAB and ADS," 39th European Microwave Conf. (EuMC 2009), % Sept. 29 – Oct. 1, Rome, Italy, pp. 1547-1550, 2009. % [3] K. Karlsson, J. Carlsson, I. Belov, G. Nilsson, and P.-S. Kildal, % “Optimization of antenna diversity gain by combining full-wave and % circuit simulations,” in Proc. Second European Conference on Antennas % and Propagation EuCAP 2007, 11–16 Nov. 2007, pp. 1–5. % % (C) 2013-2015 Thorsten Liebig close all clear clc % we need the "Cuircuit Toolbox" addpath('C:\CTB'); % get the latest version from: % using git: https://github.com/thliebig/CTB % or zip: https://github.com/thliebig/CTB/archive/master.zip % set this to 0 to NOT run a reference simulation with the given C2 and C3 % for comparison do_reference_simulation = 1; % set to 1 if you want to run AppCSXCAD to see the simulated structure show_structure = 1; % set this to 1, to force openEMS to run again even if the data already exist force_rerun = 0; % frequency range of interest f = linspace( 1e9, 5e9, 1601 ); % resonant frequency for far-field calculations f0 = 3e9; % capacities for port 2 and 3 to shift the far-field pattern C2 = 0.2e-12; C3 = 0.2e-12; Sim_Path_Root = ['tmp_' mfilename]; %% calculate the full S-parameter set for all 3 patch antennas running 3 % individual openEMS simulations in which one antenna is active and the % other two a passive (50 Ohm load) respectively xpos = [0 -41 41]; % x-center position of the 3 antennas caps = [0 0 0]; resist = [50 50 50]; spara = []; color_code = {'k-','r--','m-.'}; for n=1:3 active = [0 0 0]; active(n) = 1; % activate antenna n Sim_Path = [Sim_Path_Root '_' num2str(n)]; % create an individual path [port{n} nf2ff{n}] = Patch_Antenna_Array(Sim_Path, ((exist(Sim_Path,'dir')>0) && (force_rerun==0)), show_structure, xpos, caps, resist, active); port{n} = calcPort( port{n}, Sim_Path, f, 'RefImpedance', 50); nf2ff{n} = CalcNF2FF(nf2ff{n}, Sim_Path, f0, [-180:2:180]*pi/180, 0); figure hold on grid on for p=1:3 I(p,n) = interp1(f, port{n}{p}.if.tot,f0); P_in(p) = 0.5*interp1(f, port{n}{n}.uf.inc,f0)*conj(interp1(f, port{n}{n}.if.inc,f0)); spara(p,n,:) = port{n}{p}.uf.ref./ port{n}{n}.uf.inc; plot(f, squeeze(20*log10(abs(spara(p,n,:)))),color_code{p},'Linewidth',2); end end %% export sparameter to touchstone file write_touchstone('s',f,spara,[Sim_Path_Root '.s3p']); % instructions for Qucs: % load the written touchstone file % attach C2 and C3 to port 2 and 3 % attach a signal port to port 1 % probe the currents going into port 1 to 3 % example currents for ports 1 to 3 for C2 = 0.2pF and C3=0.2pF I_qucs(1,1) = 0.00398-0.000465j; I_qucs(2,1) = 2.92e-5-0.000914j; I_qucs(3,1) = 2.92e-5-0.000914j; disp(['I2/I1: Qucs: ' num2str(I_qucs(2)/I_qucs(1)) ' (defined manually)']) disp(['I3/I1: Qucs: ' num2str(I_qucs(3)/I_qucs(1)) ' (defined manually)']) %% Calculate the currents of port 1 to 3 using Matlab [1] z = s2z(spara); Z2 = 1/(1j*2*pi*f0*C2); Z3 = 1/(1j*2*pi*f0*C3); z23(1,1) = interp1(f,squeeze(z(2,2,:)),f0) + Z2; z23(1,2) = interp1(f,squeeze(z(2,3,:)),f0); z23(2,1) = interp1(f,squeeze(z(3,2,:)),f0); z23(2,2) = interp1(f,squeeze(z(3,3,:)),f0) + Z3; %set input/feeding current of port 1 to 1mA I_out(1,1) = 1e-3; % calc current for port 2 and 3 I_out([2 3],1) = z23\[-interp1(f,squeeze(z(2,1,:)),f0);-interp1(f,squeeze(z(3,1,:)),f0)]*I_out(1); disp(['I2/I1: Matlab: ' num2str(I_out(2)/I_out(1))]) disp(['I3/I1: Matlab: ' num2str(I_out(3)/I_out(1))]) %% do a reference simulation for the given C2/C3 values if (do_reference_simulation) active = [1 0 0]; caps = [0 C2 C3]; resist = [50 inf inf]; Sim_Path = [Sim_Path_Root '_C2=' num2str(C2*1e12) '_C3=' num2str(C3*1e12)]; [port_ref nf2ff_ref] = Patch_Antenna_Array(Sim_Path, ((exist(Sim_Path,'dir')>0) && (force_rerun==0)), show_structure, xpos, caps, resist, active); port_ref = calcPort( port_ref, Sim_Path, f, 'RefImpedance', 50); nf2ff_ref = CalcNF2FF(nf2ff_ref, Sim_Path, f0, [-180:2:180]*pi/180, 0); % extract currents from reference simulation for p=1:3 I_ref(p,1) = interp1(f, port_ref{p}.if.tot,f0); end disp(['I2/I1: openEMS: ' num2str(I_ref(2)/I_ref(1))]) disp(['I3/I1: openEMS: ' num2str(I_ref(3)/I_ref(1))]) end %% calculate and apply weighting coefficients [3] % calculate coeff = I\I_out; % apply E_ff_phi = 0*nf2ff{1}.E_phi{1}; E_ff_theta = 0*nf2ff{1}.E_phi{1}; for n=1:3 E_ff_phi = E_ff_phi + coeff(n)*nf2ff{n}.E_phi{1}; E_ff_theta = E_ff_theta + coeff(n)*nf2ff{n}.E_theta{1}; end %% plot far-field patterns figure polar([-180:2:180]'*pi/180,abs(E_ff_phi(:))/max(abs(E_ff_phi(:)))); hold on if (do_reference_simulation) polar([-180:2:180]'*pi/180,abs(nf2ff_ref.E_norm{1}(:,1))/max(abs(nf2ff_ref.E_norm{1}(:,1))),'r--'); end title('normalized far-field pattern','Interpreter', 'none') legend('calculated','reference')