Blog Articles

At Optenni, we are passionate about Antenna and RF Optimization, with extensive experience in the field. To help you succeed in your design work, we are happy to share our expertise and best practices. These blog articles showcase a variety of design aspects contributed by Optenni experts. And stay tuned – new articles are on the way.

Nisatuz Jahra
Fail fast and focus your efforts on the right antenna design candidates with Optenni Lab. Bandwidth potential assessment is a time-saver in your design flow – here, we explain the theory behind it.
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Jaakko Juntunen
Measuring antenna impedance at high frequencies? Getting tired of the mismatch between the measurement and simulation results? Find out how to navigate the antenna and RF design process with confidence—without the frustration of endless iterations.
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Jaakko Juntunen
Mastering antenna impedance measurements – Volume I. Your RF and antenna design flow may start from a 3D EM simulation model of an antenna, selecting a suitable catalogue antenna, or directly from an antenna prototype. Whatever is the end-to-end design flow, to match the design with the target specification, prototype
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Olli Pekonen
Find out how to include the effects of transmission lines and PCB layout in your antenna matching circuit design. With Optenni Lab you can greatly accelerate your design flow by including these effects.
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Olli Pekonen
As discussed in previous Optenni blogs already, modern day antenna designers face major challenges with limited antenna sizes, multiband & wideband operation and good radiation efficiency requirements. But this is not all. In reality, no antenna is suspended in static, immutable free space.
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Jussi Rahola
I founded Optenni Ltd exactly 15 years ago and it has been the most exciting part of my professional career. Optenni has become an established player in the RF and antenna ecosystem, thanks to the work of Optenni employees and the collaboration with our customers, software and hardware partners and
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Olli Pekonen
In this Optenni blog article, the themes introduced in the previous blog on Feb 12th, 2024 will be expanded to multiport antennas, in particular to tunable antennas. We also rely on the teachings of an Optenni blog article on preassessments from Nov 28th, 2023.
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Olli Pekonen
In this Optenni blog article, we take a look into some of the ways many Optenni Lab accelerates the design flow of antenna designs, and antenna matching in particular. We first focus on a straightforward one-port antenna, and then in later blog articles expand the story e.g. to the challenging
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Jussi Rahola
In this blog article, I will present the background and different variants of Optenni Lab’s power balance plots, which are used to illustrate power flow in RF circuits and antennas. But what has Napoleon to do with all this? Read through the blog and find out!
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Olli Pekonen
With the blog article of September 2023, we touched the main design philosophy of Optenni Lab, where the user may Explore the antenna, Accelerate the design of antenna matching, and Maximise the impact of matching. In this blog article, let me focus on the first aspect of this philosophy, Explore.
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Sergei Kosulnikov
It is well known that compact wireless devices require small antennas whose size is dictated mostly by mechanical, design and aesthetic aspects, and not so much on the efficiency of radiation. Therefore, such small antennas are often made tunable to cater for multiband requirements. To make an antenna tunable, a
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Jussi Rahola
With this article I would like to welcome you to the new Optenni blog series. In this blog we will be discussing various matters related to RF circuit synthesis, impedance matching, antenna arrays and our Optenni Lab circuit synthesis software for antenna and RF optimization. When re-designing the pages, we
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