60GHz mmWave Simulation with openEMS & Blender - Radiation Pattern

Testing the capabilities of openEMS to do millimeter wave EM simulations! For this I will be using one of Texas Instruments mmWave evaluation boards, specifically TIDEP-01001 which features the AWR6843 60GHz single-chip mmWave sensor.
The design consists of a 60GHz transmitting and receiving patch antenna arrays that are series-fed from transmission lines to and from the AWR6843 sensor.
This animation shows how the electric field component is launched from the sensor to the patch antenna array and then how the electric field is radiated. As expected, there is a main lobe and a side lobe since all patch antenna elements are driven in phase with each other
#blender3d #antenna #kicad #pcb #simulation

[@bentomo]

I wish this would blow up more, the background knowledge to get to a simulation like this is immense. And if a picture is worth 1000 words, this particular video alone is probably worth billions.

[@HomoSapiensMember]

would love to watch a tutorial on how to pull this off

[@yt4krist0f]

Yees, please show how such an animation is created. Thanks!

[@SchizophrenicCookies]

Very impressive. I think those four antenna elements included in the visualization are actually individual receiving elements. Your simulation treats them as a transmitting phased array. Transmission with this kind of radar is done using one of the other 3 antennas, only one at a time.

[@samerps]

Thanks, yes that is the correct, I've simulated the receiving elements as transmitters because the simulation would be easier, the simulation domain would be smaller

[@Flygtraktor]

Agree, it gives a good picture of the receiving lobe.

[@AirmanCS]

555 likes when I wrote this hehe

[@TechSponsorTV]

Rendering quality is much better than I expected, considering you spent time on using real simulation data. It looks even better than fake advertisement 3d simulations!

[@L2.Lagrange]

Thats really cool

[@philorkill]

Amazing stuff! Thank you for sharing!

[@oscarpeters1351]

very nice!

[@CloroxBleach0]

Can you do Infineon’s BGT60TR13C next? Lovely work😃

[@JuulCPH]

Amazing! How do you accomplish this? I would love a tutorial or even just some quick notes on the process!

[@Barc0d3]

awesome animation

[@earth2k66]

Disliked for that ugly MicroUSB connector, should have used TypeC.
Nice simulation by the way.

[@TheUeffects]

Wow, great work

[@danny_racho]

Wow really cool :)

[@iammicah895]

Just to make sure, there was no sound right? I’ve got tinnitus.

[@samerps]

No, there's no sound

[@iammicah895]

@@samerps thank you. It looks great btw.