#678 – All About Antennas with Katerina Galitskaya
Oct 01, 2024
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Episode description
Welcome Katerina Galitskaya!
- Chris started following Katerina’s antenna posts on LinkedIn
- Monopole vs dipole
- Lower frequences are harder bc longer wavelength
- PCB size half of frequency
- Place antenta on the shorter side
- How to ruin your PCB
- When to go to a antenna engineer?
- Where will the device be?
- Antenna environment
- Start from vacuum, start adding elements
- Dummies in the lab. The one in the episode photo is a dummy head filled with liquid (?!)
- SAR – Specific Absorption rate
- Simulation vs lab work (dimensions)
- Anechoic chamber
- When to go with custom antenna?
- Buying off the shelf antenna?
- New Airpods with fancy 3D antenna
- Ben’s video about laser sintered antennas
- MIMO / Beamforming
- the failed promises of 5G
- When to simulate
- Some open source programs out there (“EMSee”?)
- Simulating vs visualizing
- Most of the time it’s not about vizualizing fields
- What is the iteration elements of the antenna?
- Satellite antenna design
- Good to go external
- Thinking about the dielectric const of case
- Follow Katerina on LinkedIn!
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