Antenna Catalog
The Antenna Catalog offers a comprehensive collection of ready-to-use antenna objects for a wide range of applications. Each antenna design is fully parameterized, allowing you to customize dimensions and materials to meet specific requirements. The Antenna Catalog also provides objects for creating custom antennas using built-in shapes, CAD imports, planar mesh modeling, and boundary point definitions. Using built-in analysis functions, analyze and visualize antenna performance, including radiation patterns, impedance, bandwidth, efficiency, and more. Leverage AI-based antenna models of supported catalog elements to rapidly explore the design space, tune, and analyze those elements.
Integrate these antennas into RF systems using the Antenna (RF Blockset) block. Use these antennas as elements in finite and infinite arrays, phased arrays (Phased Array System Toolbox), and as transmitters and receivers in a satellite scenario (Satellite Communications Toolbox). Use these antennas as transmitters, receivers, or transmitter-receivers in the RF Budget Analyzer (RF Toolbox) app.
To learn how to create, visualize, and analyze antennas, see Antenna Modeling and Analysis.
To interactively design, analyze, and optimize antennas, use the Antenna Designer app.
Antenna Categories
For a complete list of antenna catalog elements, see Antenna Element Catalog.
Categories
- Cavity Antennas
Rectangular and circular cavity
- Cloverleaf Antenna
Wideband cloverleaf
- Cone Antennas
Bicone, discone, monocone, strip bicone, and strip discone
- Custom Antennas
Create antenna from shapes, planar mesh, geometry points, and CAD files
- Dielectric Resonator Antennas
Rectangular and cylindrical dielectric resonators
- Dipole Antennas
Meander, folded dipole, bowtie, blade, cross, cycloid, cylindrical dipole, rhombic, and biquad
- Fractal Antennas
Sierpinski gasket and carpet, Koch dipole and snowflake, Minkowski's Island
- Helix Antennas
Monofilar, bifilar, and quadrafilar helix with and without ground plane
- Horn Antennas
Rectangular, conical, corrugated, Potter, Scrimp, and ridged horn
- Log-Periodic Antennas
Yagi-Uda, log-periodic dipole array, and quad antenna
- Loop Antennas
Circular and rectangular loop
- Monopole Antennas
Monopole and top-hat monopole, inverted and coplanar inverted antennas, custom monopole, cylindrical monopole
- MRI Coil
Birdcage MRI coil
- Patch Antennas
Rectangular, elliptical, triangular, and circular probe-fed patch, inset-fed rectangular patch, e-notch and h-notch patch
- Reflector Antennas
Rectangular, circular, grid, cylindrical, parabolic, corner, dual reflectors, and dielectric lens
- Slot Antennas
Slot, Vivaldi, offset cavity Vivaldi, and antipodal Vivaldi
- Spiral Antennas
Archimedean, rectangular, and equiangular spiral
- Waveguides
Rectangular, circular, ridged and slotted waveguides
Featured Examples
Design and Analyze VHF/UHF Biconical Antenna for Testing Applications
Design and analyze a wire biconical antenna that can be used in various testing applications. Wire biconical antennas are used as a standard victim in any compliance test lab in a variety of testing applications such as immunity testing, emission testing, spectrum monitoring, and shielding effectiveness etc.
Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Planar Monopole Antennas
Design UWB planar monopole antennas. Planar monopole antennas are simple in geometry and provide an ultra-wideband (UWB) operating bandwidth. To create a planar monopole, replace a conventional wire monopole with planar elements in a variety of shapes to increase the surface area of the monopole. To design a planar monopole antenna, mount a planar metal plate on the ground plane. The ground plane can also have various shapes.
Design and Analyze Curved Reflector Antennas
Design and analyze the curved reflector antennas. Curved reflector antennas are an upgraded version of rectangular reflector antennas. The curved reflector surface of these antennas reflects and focuses the signal, thereby increasing the signal strength. Some of the notable characteristics of the curved reflectors are high gain, low cross-polarization, and reasonable bandwidth.
