TY - GEN
T1 - Wideband subarray design for 5G an antenna arrays
AU - Ershadi, Seyyedehelnaz
AU - Keshtkar, Asghar
AU - Ershdi, Seyyedehelnaz
AU - Abdelrahman, Ahmed H.
AU - Yu, Xiaoju
AU - Xin, Hao
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/10/19
Y1 - 2016/10/19
N2 - There is a global trend towards migrating to millimeter wave frequencies in the fifth generation of mobile communications (5G) to further enhance the available capacity and data rates. Antenna arrays are usually applied to overcome the innate high path loss at the millimeter wave (mmW) frequency band. Moreover, the use of subarrays decreases design complexity and system cost. The goal of this paper is to present a design of a wideband subarray at the frequency range from 28 GHz to 32 GHz, i.e. the frequency range applied for Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS), to be used in the antenna array design of next generation mobile networks. The proposed subarray consists of four radiating elements of proximity coupled stacked patch antennas. The unit-cell is first designed, fabricated and tested, which confirms the wideband coverage along the required band. The proposed subarray achieves a simulated gain that ranges between 11.1 dB and 12 dB along the frequency band from 28 GHz to 32 GHz. The impedance bandwidth and the 1-dB gain bandwidth are 30% and 21.2%, respectively.
AB - There is a global trend towards migrating to millimeter wave frequencies in the fifth generation of mobile communications (5G) to further enhance the available capacity and data rates. Antenna arrays are usually applied to overcome the innate high path loss at the millimeter wave (mmW) frequency band. Moreover, the use of subarrays decreases design complexity and system cost. The goal of this paper is to present a design of a wideband subarray at the frequency range from 28 GHz to 32 GHz, i.e. the frequency range applied for Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS), to be used in the antenna array design of next generation mobile networks. The proposed subarray consists of four radiating elements of proximity coupled stacked patch antennas. The unit-cell is first designed, fabricated and tested, which confirms the wideband coverage along the required band. The proposed subarray achieves a simulated gain that ranges between 11.1 dB and 12 dB along the frequency band from 28 GHz to 32 GHz. The impedance bandwidth and the 1-dB gain bandwidth are 30% and 21.2%, respectively.
KW - 5G
KW - millimeter wave
KW - subarray
KW - unit-cell
KW - wideband
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84995451842&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84995451842&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/URSIAP-RASC.2016.7601266
DO - 10.1109/URSIAP-RASC.2016.7601266
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84995451842
T3 - 2016 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference, URSI AP-RASC 2016
SP - 185
EP - 187
BT - 2016 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference, URSI AP-RASC 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2016 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference, URSI AP-RASC 2016
Y2 - 21 August 2016 through 25 August 2016
ER -