Pillbox Antenna

17 times 40 wavelengths: This huge Pillbox Antenna was optimised by one of our customers even during the evaluation period of CST MICROWAVE STUDIO. He commented: \"We would not have built and tested the hardware if we had had this software before\".

Figure 1:

The efficient Time Domain Approach of MWS is able to handle this large structure on a normal PC in a few hours calculation time. The cross section of the reflector is defined by a mathematical function and has been imported as a DXF File.

Figure 2:

By calculating the farfield radiation pattern around 30 GHz a misdesign has been detected. The customer was able to optimize the original structure using MWS.

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