S parameters calculating errors

Hello everyone

i am using Antenna toolbox to calculate S parameters. The code line "s = sparameters (h, freq);" give errors:

Error using rectangularArray/meshGenerator (line 274) Intersection detected in specified geometry.

Error in em.MeshGeometry/updateMesh

Error in em.MeshGeometry/getMesh

Error in em.EmStructures/analyze

Error in em.Array/sparameters (line 48) status = analyze(obj,freq, 1:TotalArrayElements, ...

The code is here:

clear

freq = 2e9;

c = physconst('lightspeed');
lambda = c/freq;

h = rectangularArray('Size',[3 3], 'RowSpacing', [lambda/2 lambda/2],...
                        'ColumnSpacing', [lambda/2 lambda/2]);
layout(h)

s = sparameters (h, freq);
S = s.Parameters;

U = eye(9,9);
Z = (U+S)/(U-S);

Can you tell me what is the problem of it? One thing needs to be mentioned is that if the frequency chosen to be less than 1Ghz, there would be no error.

Thanks in advance

Xining Yu

Answer 1

[John BG]

Hi Xining

I have just started using the Antenna Toolbox for MSc, but it looks like the standard dipole and monopole elements predefined in MATLAB, at 2GHz, overlap when in an array spaced lambda/2, lambda only 15cm.

I say this because I have tried the spacing from 0.9 down to 0.09 and it seems to work fine, but at lambda/2, the overlap error in the mesh shows up, have a look:

    clear
    freq = 2e9;
    c = physconst('lightspeed');
    lambda = c/freq;
    % h = rectangularArray('Size',[3 3], 'RowSpacing', [lambda/2 lambda/2],'ColumnSpacing', [lambda/2 lambda/2]);
    % h = rectangularArray('Size',[3 3]);
    h=rectangularArray;
    h.Size=[3 3];
  % h.ColumnSpacing=lambda/2;
  % h.RowSpacing=lambda/2;

h.ColumnSpacing=.9;
h.RowSpacing=.9;
h.Tilt=90;
h.TiltAxis=[0 0 1];

layout(h);

% s = sparameters (h, freq);
% S = s.Parameters;
figure(1);show(h)

I skipped the S parameters second step because it does not seem to be the cause of the error because if you try your code without the ColumnSpacing and RowSpacing, the default value of 2m works fine.

Now try

h.ColumnSpacing=.09;
h.RowSpacing=.09;
figure(2);show(h);

have a look in the monopole class definition in MATLAB help:

Try defining a custom antenna element, modifying the W of the standard monopole class.

Xining would you please be so kind to mark my answer as Accepted Answer?

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thanks in advance

John

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[Xining Yu]

Thanks for your reply.