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In this article, a novel millimeter-wave dualpolarized 2-D multibeam antenna array incorporating differentially fed antenna elements is proposed to achieve high cross-polarization discrimination (XPD) when the beams scan to the maximal pointing angles. The antenna element is composed of an SIW cavity with four shorted patches placed inside, and it is differentially excited for dual-polarization by a pair of feeding strips and transverse slots beneath the patches. Differential excitation is realized by a power divider designed on two laminate layers. Two Butler matrices placed perpendicularly with each other in different laminates are employed to generate four tilted beams with dual-polarization. A 2 × 2 dual-polarized 2-D multibeam antenna array working at 28 GHz is designed, fabricated, and measured. The operation bandwidth of the antenna is 26.8-29.2 GHz. The improvement in the XPD is experimentally demonstrated by far-field measurement. When the beams scan to 30 • off the boresight, the measured XPDs are 28 dB at the center frequency and higher than 25 dB over the operation bandwidth, which confirms that the cross-polarized radiation in the 2-D multibeam antenna array is suppressed by using the differential-feeding technique. The measured gain is in the range from 7.6 to 10.5 dBi.

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A novel differentially driven dual-polarized patch antenna is presented in this communication. The proposed antenna is a low-cost design with a simple configuration, which avoids using the conventional high cost multi-layer PCB technology. The antenna is composed of two intersected open loop resonators, which are connected to each other at the center. By using the electric coupling from the intersected resonators, two orthogonal radiating modes are excited from the top radiating patch. With the even and odd mode current distributions on the intersected resonators, high port isolation and low cross-polarization level are obtained. The external quality factor of the resonator is illustrated by using the analytical model of a double loaded resonator. To demonstrate the design method, the proposed antenna and array are designed, fabricated, and measured. Compared to the traditionally designed capacitively coupled antenna, two times wider impedance bandwidth is obtained for the proposed antenna with high isolation (>38.5 dB) and low cross-polarization level (<-33 dB). The antenna array is designed for 5G base stations, which features the compact size and low reflection coefficient (<-15 dB). In addition, beam scanning performance of the antenna array is also investigated for base station applications. Index Terms-Differentially driven antenna, dual-polarized antenna, open loop resonators.

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The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users are advised to check http://kar.kent.ac.uk for the status of the paper. Users should always cite the published version of record.