A new, hybrid, nona‐band antenna of the size 80 × 8 × 5 mm3 is proposed for recent metal‐rimmed smartphone applications. The proposed design is composed of a metallic frame (external antenna) and an internal radiating structure. The proposed antenna is attached to the top part of the smartphone. It uses a microstrip feed as a direct coupling line for the internal radiating structure. The feed also represents a capacitive coupling feed for the overall metal‐rim antenna structure. The metal rim with a small gap of 2 mm is connected to the system printed circuit board by two grounding points. The proposed antenna excites four coupled loop modes, three slot monopole modes, three dipole modes, and one monopole mode. By incorporating the excited modes, the proposed antenna covers all recent smartphone applications in the frequency range between 0.79 and 6.0 GHz. The proposed design is described with great details and both simulated and measured results are used to establish its validity. The antenna performance with mobile phone components is also investigated. The results demonstrate that the proposed antenna represents an excellent candidate for applications such as GSM850, GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900, UMTS2100, LTE2300, LTE2500, LTE3500, and WiFi5500 bands.
In this work, 2‐element slot‐based frequency reconfigurable (FR) multiple‐input‐multiple‐output (MIMO) antenna design antenna with a very wide‐sweep is proposed for dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) in 5G technologies. FR is achieved using varactor diode with frequency tuning range from 1655 to 2605 MHz. The design is a low profile with planar structure having a single element footprint of 19.5 × 20 mm2. The two slot antenna elements of the MIMO configuration are etched out from a ground (GND) plane of dimensions of 60 × 120 mm2. The proposed antenna is narrow‐band and hence it is suitable for RF front‐end in the 5G‐enabled DSS in cognitive radio (CR) applications.
In this work, a design of a transition from a standard D-band waveguide to substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) technology is presented for 6G applications. The waveguide is connected to an SIW by carving a slot at the bottom metal of the printed circuit board (PCB). A pair of vias is added to shift the inband null to a higher frequency, whereas a parasitic patch is used to improve impedance matching. A prototype of a back-to-back SIW transition is fabricated and measured using D-band VNA extenders. The measurement shows a −10 dB impedance bandwidth of 26.5 GHz (135–161.5 GHz) and a 3 dB bandwidth of 28 GHz (133.8–161.8 GHz). The transition can be integrated with a D-band antenna for 6G applications.
This paper presents a very compact, wideband, and enhanced-gain antenna for 5G applications. A simple single-layer millimeter wave (mm-wave) metamaterial lens (meta-lens) is used to improve the gain, aperture efficiency, and gain bandwidth of a slotted-patch antenna over a wide range of frequencies from 25 GHz to 31 GHz. The lens exhibits a metamaterial negative refractive index behavior, which is attributed to a substantial gain enhancement of around 4-5 dBi over the whole band compared to the gain values of the slotted patch antenna alone. The lens's unit cell comprises a simple single-layer split ring resonator (SRR) whose dimensions are carefully chosen to improve transmitted power and suppress absorbed and reflected power. The meta-lens consists of 8×8 subwavelength SRR unit cells. Each cell has an area of 1.6×1.6 mm 2 , it is located in the near-field region closely above a slotted patch antenna to produce a total antenna size of 12.8 ×12.8 ×7.27mm 3 ( 1.2 λ × 1.2 λ × 0.68 λ, where λ is the free space wavelength at 28 GHz). The maximum gain of the proposed antenna is 12.7 dBi, the 1 dB gain bandwidth is 18%, the maximum aperture efficiency is 92%, and the -10 dB impedance bandwidth (10 dB B.W.) is 17%. This excellent combination of essential metrics is hard to realize at mm-wave using narrowband antenna structures (microstrip patch antennas), and the aperture efficiency is the highest thus far for such a class of antennas.INDEX TERMS Wideband 5G antenna, Gain enhancement, Aperture efficiency, Negative refractive index, Millimeter wave meta-lens.
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