u/Immediate_Strength64

How to design coaxial feed patch antenna?

I've been using the HFSS software currently for implantable antennas. I also have used the CST studio suite but for microstrip patch antenna. I'm trying to design a coaxial feed patch antenna. The work I'm trying to reproduce didn't mention the dielectric material for the coaxial feed. Also in HFSS how do you guys prefer to design the coax feed? I've seen YouTube videos where they cut the ground with the same radius for the outer conductor ( a cylinder of PEC) , then take a dielectric cylinder, and then another cylinder for PEC. Three of them have a length starting from the ground plane then extend to the bottom. Then they take a second inner cylinder of PEC with the same radius as the previous inner conductor that they take from the ground to the patch. Then at the bottom where the coaxial feed ends, they take a circle of outer layer radius and then assign a lumped port. But when i try to do that the results are deviating a lot. The return loss doesn't even go near -2dB. Do i need to create some vaccum material cylinders and then place the required material cylinders in HFSS? I'd be really grateful if you share your steps or resources that you follow to design them.

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u/Immediate_Strength64 — 7 days ago

I was reproducing an implantable antenna. I'm new into this. In that design they used a 0.5mm thick silicone coating. So when i introduce a cube around the antenna after that they say that the coating is intersecting my previous design (the main antenna) and there are few options. Can anyone tell me which one to pick for coating my antenna with silicon? I used a reference photo to show the Boolean combinations.

u/Immediate_Strength64 — 29 days ago