Antenna Engineering Consulting Services

Antenna Engineering Consulting Services is a core competency for ENO, and we provide clients with services for optimizing the performance of existing antennas, as well as providing research, design, development, and optimization of new:

• Wire Antennas
• Reflector Antennas
• Planar Antennas
• Conformal Antennas
• Lens Antennas
• Ablation Antennas
• Sensing Antennas

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Antenna Engineering is an integral part of our lives in the 21st century.  Mobile phones contain multiple antennas for their different bands of operation, which include GPS, Bluetooth, three bands for Wi-Fi, 3G, 4G, and 5G systems, along with other applications.  Similarly, satellite receivers for homes and automobiles use unique antennas for their intended applications, as well as air-traffic control radars, weather radars, wind shear radars, fire control radars, navigation radars, collision avoidance radars, cancer ablation, and countless other industrial, domestic, and government applications.  This expanding presence of antennas for new systems or products often requires the development of a new antenna for these devices, which ENO can provide. ENO can also assist with solving performance issues for existing antennas.

Next, ENO provides Antenna Engineering Consulting Services for a wide range of antenna geometries.  These services include the theoretical analysis, design, development, fabrication, testing, validation, and optimization of RF, Microwave, and Millimeter-Wave Antennas for the following configurations:

• Parabolic reflectors,
• Corner reflectors,
• Frequency specific standard gain horns,
• Corrugated horns,
• Dielectric lens,
• Lunenburg lens,
• Rotman Lens,
• Cassegrain,
• Inverse Cassegrain,
• Spiral,
• Patch,
• Linear Wire Monopole, Dipole, and Helix,
• Medical Tissue Ablation,
• RFID Near-Field,
• RFID Far-Field,
• Software Defined Radios with Beam Forming Networks, and
• Application-specific antennas.

Contact us if your antenna geometry is not shown on this abbreviated list since not every configuration can be included here.  Regardless, this in-depth experience permits ENO to review both the client performance specifications and size constraints for their antenna subsystem.  This review allows one or more antenna options to be identified.  These options allow ENO to provide services for the theoretical design, prototyping, fabrication, optimization, and manufacturing of one or more hardware configurations to satisfy the client’s requirements.

Furthermore, ENO can also review proprietary performance specifications, size constraints, and proposed hardware configurations to determine if these concepts are suitable for the intended application or if the design concept must be modified to satisfy the stated requirements.  Performance and physical limitations for each design concept will be documented during the review process, and modifications to the design concept will be documented to illustrate how the design concept must be adapted to satisfy the performance and size limitations.  Suppose some portion of the performance or size specification is found to be physically impossible to achieve. In that case, these problem areas are revealed along with recommendations to circumvent these barriers to achieving the requisite performance.

Antenna Engineering Computational Electromagnetics (CEM)

Finally, ENO is experienced using Ansys HFSS as part of the Ansys Electronics Workbench, CST Microwave Studio, COMSOL, FEKO, SONNET Software, and Keysight ADS and Genesys to support the Computational Electromagnetics’ (CEM) aspects of these programs. Clients can specify using one or more of these CEM tools for their project as long as the client provides a valid license for using the code or pays for contract access to the code of choice. If the client cannot select the appropriate CEM code for their project, then ENO is prepared to assist each client with selecting the appropriate CEM code(s) to ensure the success of their project.

It is important for each client to realize that the accuracy of CEM (Computational Electromagnetic) simulations is dependent upon both the frequency and temperature-dependent material properties (thermal conductivity, complex permittivity, relative permittivity, loss tangent, electrical conductivity, density, specific heat,…) of the metals and dielectrics used for fabricating antenna circuits, so these material properties must typically be measured so they can be included in the CEM simulations.  Laboratory and contract resources are available to determine these material properties, which are essential for providing accurate CEM simulations of antenna circuits and associated subsystems.  ENO provides each client with the capability to only use valid material properties for their CEM simulations.

Antenna Engineering Consulting Services Wrap-Up

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