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adiation pattern for the modeled patch antenna is shown in Figure 3-37 for the<br />

optimum frequency, 6.3 GHz.<br />

Figure 3-37: The radiation pattern plotted as a lobe pattern, using the deformed plot<br />

feature. It is clear that the wave mainly propagates in two lobes, with minimal radiation<br />

out of the backside of the PCB.<br />

Model Library path: <strong>RF</strong>_Module/<strong>RF</strong>_and_Microwave_Engineering/<br />

patch_antenna_balanced<br />

Modeling in COMSOL Multiphysics<br />

Antenna simulations in 3D often get very large, so this model should be solved on a<br />

64-bit platform. The final mesh results in about 550,000 complex degrees of freedom,<br />

and it is seldom possible to solve problems of such large size without iterative solvers.<br />

This model solves with an efficient iterative multigrid solver, consuming around<br />

2.5 GB of memory.<br />

188 | CHAPTER 3: <strong>RF</strong> AND MICROWAVE MODELS

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