Modeling a thin film printed inductance coil for a VHF radio receiver

Abstract

When designing and modeling inductors, the only practical options are wire connections and flat geometric shapes, although, wire connections allow to achieve a high-quality factor, their inductance values are limited and can be quite sensitive to variations, flat spiral inductors have limited values, but have inductance, which is well defined in a wide range of process variations. The application of the program Ansoft Maxwell in the simulation of a thin-film printed coil for VHF radio receiver in the perspective of use on a stationary research platform located in the coastal zone of the Black Sea in the Blue Bay at a distance of ~ 450 m from the shore. Work in the future is aimed at using the software product for the full cycle of modeling the minimized element base of the receiving and transmitting equipment.