RF Module | Microwave | Optical | Antenna | Simulation Software

Simulation of a patch antenna
ANTENNAS: Simulation of a patch antenna, which finds the optimum radiation frequency, antenna impedance, and radiation pattern, while using spherical PMLs to nullify reflections from the outer boundary.

RF Module

Modeling in the RF, microwave and optical regimes requires modeling the propagation of electromagnetic waves in and around structures that can be metallic, dielectric, gyromagnetic, or even metamaterials with engineered properties. The RF Module offers you the tools to meet this challenge by including port and scattering boundary conditions, complex, anisotropic material models, perfectly matched layers, and the best solvers available. As a result, you can easily model antennas, waveguides, microwave and optical components.

The RF Module completes the modeling experience by providing advanced post-processing features such as S-parameter computation and far-field analysis. Taken together with COMSOL’s unsurpassed ability to couple to other physics, such as electromagnetic heating, you have the industry’s leading multiphysics solution for electromagnetic waves.

  • Antennas, waveguides and cavities
  • Resonant coil design
  • Heat generation in plasmonics
  • Microwave and RF heating
  • Bloch/Floquet periodic arrays and structures
  • Circulators and directional couplers
  • High speed interconnects
  • Metamaterials
  • Microwave cancer therapy
  • Microwave devices
  • Microwave sintering
  • Oil exploration / CSEM
  • Scattered field formulation for RCS and scattering problems
  • S-parameter analyses of antennas
  • Stress-optical effects in waveguides and photonics
  • Thermo-structural effects in antennas and waveguides
  • Tissue heating from cell phones
  • Transmission lines

A broadly applicable nature brings the need to interact

The RF Module reads
ECAD drawings

In addition to the wide array of file formats supported by the COMSOL product family, the RF Module supports:

ECAD File Formats Read Write
NETEX-G (.asc) Yes No
ODB++(X) (.xml) Yes No
GDS (.gdx) Yes No
SPICE (.cis) Yes No

See all supported file formats
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