metal
Description
returns the metal used as a conductor in the PCB components. You can specify a material
from the m
= metal(material
)MetalCatalog
(Antenna Toolbox). The default value for material is perfect electric conductor
(PEC).
returns the metal based on the properties specified by one or more .name-value
pairs.m
= metal(Name=Value
)
Examples
Microstrip Line with Copper Conductor
Create a microstrip transmission line with copper conductor.
mline = microstripLine;
Create a copper metal conductor.
m = metal('copper')
m = metal with properties: Name: 'Copper' Conductivity: 59600000 Thickness: 3.5560e-05 For more materials see catalog
Change the microstrip transmission line conductor to copper.
mline.Conductor = m
mline = microstripLine with properties: Length: 0.0200 Width: 0.0050 Height: 0.0016 GroundPlaneWidth: 0.0300 Substrate: [1x1 dielectric] Conductor: [1x1 metal] SolverType: 'MoM' IsShielded: 0
View the microstrip transmission line.
show(mline)
Input Arguments
material
— Material from metal catalog
'PEC'
(default) | character vector
Material from the dielectric catalog, specified as a metal from the MetalCatalog
. The default material is perfect electric conductor (PEC),
which has infinite conductivity and zero thickness.
Example:
'Iron'
Data Types: char
Name-Value Arguments
Specify optional pairs of arguments as
Name1=Value1,...,NameN=ValueN
, where Name
is
the argument name and Value
is the corresponding value.
Name-value arguments must appear after other arguments, but the order of the
pairs does not matter.
Example: Name='Iron'
Name
— Name of metal material
'PEC'
(default) | character vector
Name of the metal material you want to use as a conductor, specified as a character vector.
Example: Name='Iron'
Data Types: char
Conductivity
— Conductivity of metal material
Inf
(default) | scalar
Conductivity of the metal material, specified as a scalar in Siemens per
meter(S/m). If you set 'Conductivity'
to 'Inf'
,
you must set 'Thickness'
to '0'
.
Example: Conductivity=4.8e06
Data Types: double
Thickness
— Thickness of metal
0
(default) | scalar
Thickness of the metal material along the default z-axis, specified as a scalar in meters.
Example: Thickness=0.26e-6
Data Types: double
Output Arguments
m
— Conductor metal
metal object
Conductor metal, returned as a metal object.
Version History
Introduced in R2021a
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