Antennas in the Wild
Antennas inside real products: phones, circuit boards, wearables. Why the same antenna behaves differently once it leaves the textbook.
Episodes
What this series covers
2 episodes made so far. A tick marks the ones already on YouTube.
- 01How you hold your phone can cut its signal by 84%
- 02Print a phone antenna on a circuit board and it shrinks by half
Watch them on the Electronics 101 YouTube channel. Episodes without a tick are finished and queued for release.
Resources
Material for this series
Notes, formula sheets and guides that stay useful after the episodes.
Antenna Parameters — Notes
Gain, directivity, efficiency, bandwidth, beamwidth and polarisation, each with the definition, the units and the measurement that would confirm it.
HFSS — Your First Correct Model
A step-by-step build of a microstrip patch, with the setup mistakes that silently produce plausible wrong answers called out at each step.
MATLAB for Antenna Analysis
Computing and plotting radiation patterns, array factors and beamwidths from first principles rather than from a toolbox call.
Antenna Project Starter Pack
Templates, a measurement log, a report skeleton and a verification checklist for a first antenna project.
Related Courses
Take it further
Structured programmes covering the same ground in more depth, with a deliverable at the end.
Antenna Design with HFSS
Model, simulate and verify real antennas — and learn to tell a converged result from a pretty one.
- Duration
- 6 weeks
- Modules
- 6
- Certificate
- Yes
- Price
- Pricing on registration
Tools used: Ansys HFSS · MATLAB