With the improvement of mobile communication technologies and their broad applications, mobile communication will have more impact on our life. Such systems will support a variety of personal communication services with high-data rate and very low latency applications. To achieve such demands, many proposals associated with the development of 5G identify a set of requirements for which different technological directions are independently emerging. One direction is utilizing the millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) frequency bands where more spectrums are available. Millimeter-wave frequencies offer the advantage of physically smaller components that results in cost-effective RF transceivers and feasible large-scale integrated phased arrays. The smart RF transceivers of 5G along with the potential high-frequency innovative designs must satisfy the growing consumer and technology requirements. This implies utilizing the state-of-the-art guiding structures, especially printed ridge gap waveguide (PRGW), that have low loss and minimal dispersion compared with traditional PCB-based structures. The present chapter focuses on the necessary components for a beamforming antenna system which is implemented using PRGW technology. Millimeter wave antennas with different polarizations have been addressed. Power combining and dividing components have been also developed. These components have been used for integration in a complete beamforming antenna system working at an mm-Wave frequency band.
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