Description of the Coupling of two Loop Antennas using Electrical Equivalent Circuit Diagrams

Abstract

EMC measurements must be carried out in standardized and defined measuring environments. The frequency range between 9 kHz and 30 MHz is a major challenge for measurement technology. The established test sites are designed with an perfect elelctrically conducting ground. For the considered lower frequency range, the metrological validation is carried out with magnetic field antennas in this frequency range. The aim is therefore to take into account the ferromagnetic properties of the ground plane in such a measurement environment and to describe them analytically or numerically with an electrical equivalent circuit diagram. In this article we simplify the model to two loopantennas in Freespace without groundplane to check if the approache with the ECD will work. Therefore we use various numerical field calculation programs in the frequency range up to 30 MHz. The results from simulations are to be checked for correctness with describing them analytically or numerically. For this purpose, a model consisting of two loop antennas was created and simulated in a numerical simulation program. In order to validate the results from the simulation, two different approaches to creating an electrical equivalent circuit (ECD) are examined. The first approach is based on the real equivalent circuit diagram of a coil and the second approach forms a parallel resonant circuit of the first resonance of an antennas input impedance. The focus here is on the mutual inductance, which represents the coupling between the two antennas.