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    GPS applications use a very narrow bandwidth around 1.575 GHz, since they cannot afford any interference. HFWorks gives special meshing feature to treat examples with curved parts: "Accurate curvature"

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    GPS applications use a very narrow bandwidth around 1.575 GHz, since they cannot afford any interference. HFWorks gives special meshing feature to treat examples with curved parts: "Accurate curvature"

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    GPS applications use a very narrow bandwidth around 1.575 GHz, since they cannot afford any interference. HFWorks gives special meshing feature to treat examples with curved parts: "Accurate curvature"

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    GPS Antenna Design 44

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    GPS applications use a very narrow bandwidth around 1.575 GHz, since they cannot afford any interference. HFWorks gives special meshing feature to treat examples with curved parts: "Accurate curvature"

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    Global Positioning System is increasingly get-

    ting melt in our everyday life. In order to keep


    the GPS devices low-profile and portable, de-
    signers often resort to printed antennas. GPS
    applications use a very narrow bandwidth
    around 1.575 GHz, since they cannot afford
    any interference. For this purpose, we present
    in this example an HFWorks simulation for a
    patch microstrip antenna operating at 1.575
    GHz with a very narrow band. The dimension
    of the patch is almost 2*2 cm which is con-
    venient to integration in a portable device.
    The Perfect Electric Conductor surfaces of
    the antenna are built thanks to the Split line
    feature of Solidworks.
    GPS
    ANTENNA SIMULATION
    Figure 1: GPS antenna 3D structure
    DIMENSIONS
    All dimensions are in mm. As we can see, the size
    of the antenna is very small which makes it a good
    condidate for the nature of the intended applica-
    tions (GPS for mobile devices).
    BOUNDARY
    CONDITIONS
    The feed of the antenna is locat-
    ed beneath the board of the four
    split surfaces. We select its bot-
    tom surface for the port assign-
    ment. The dielectric of the board
    is TMM 13 and the feed coax is as-
    signed the material Duroid 5880.
    We model an air box above the
    board to provide us with the ra-
    diation surfaces which should be
    located not less than one wave-
    length away from the antennas
    surfaces.
    MESHING
    The mesh of this example
    must be accurate enough
    on the signal paths which
    means the coax feed and the
    PEC surfaces. HFWorks gives
    special meshing feature to
    treat examples with curved
    parts: Accurate curvature .
    RESULTS
    The meshing being realized,
    we run an antenna simula-
    tion in the frequency range
    from 1.5 GHz to 1.65 GHz to
    precisely visualize the be-
    havior of the antenna around
    the intended frequency 1.575
    GHz of the GPS application.
    In this figure, we see that the
    return loss increases rapidly
    from 0.3 dB to above 20 dB at
    the desired frequency.
    Figure 3: Refection coeffcient at port 1
    In the next fgure, we have the radiation of the total electric feld in linear and dB situated in the Phi=0 plane.
    Figure 4: Total radiated E feld (in Linear and dB units) in Phi=0
    plane
    We can refne the angles steps during the creation of the study to get smooth plots whether
    in 2D or 3D. In this fgure, we have plotted the 3D radiation of the electric feld.
    CONCLUSION
    To conclude, we recall that the performance of any design always originates from how precise and
    adjusted the 3D design was created; of course good and regular assignments within the parameter-
    ization and the preparation of the studies (Materials, Restraints and Meshing) helps you get more ac-
    curate results but it always follows what the system has as an entry in the SolidWorks 3D model. This
    antenna has been optimized to respond to the specifications of the intended application and the porta-
    bility character; as we have seen, the antenna shows acceptable performances by operating within the
    right frequency range and with good levels of return loss.
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