A Low-Cost and High-Gain 60-GHz Differential Phased Array Antenna in PCB Process

Zhang, Tao; Li, Lianming; Xia, Haiyang; Ma, Xujun; Cui, Tie Jun

doi:10.1109/tcpmt.2018.2839342

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“…Therefore, the proposed array antenna is a promising candidate for the mm-wave 5G small cell applications. Table 2 summarizes the performance of this work and compares it with state-of-the-art mm-wave phased-array antennas [ 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 ]. The proposed patch shows around an 8.5 dBi antenna gain, which is better than [ 31 , 35 , 37 , 38 ], at a similar frequency.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Low Cost AIP Design in 5G Flexible Antenna Phase Array System Application

Tung¹,

Liu²,

Chen

et al. 2020

Micromachines

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In this paper, a low cost 28 GHz Antenna-in-Package (AIP) for a 5G communication system is designed and investigated. The antenna is implemented on a low-cost FR4 substrate with a phase shift control integrated circuit, AnokiWave phasor integrated circuit (IC). The unit cell where the array antenna and IC are integrated in the same plate constructs a flexible phase array system. Using the AIP unit cell, the desired antenna array can be created, such as 2 × 8, 8 × 8 or 2 × 64 arrays. The study design proposed in this study is a 2 × 2 unit cell structure with dimensions of 18 mm × 14 mm × 0.71 mm. The return loss at a 10 dB bandwidth is 26.5–29.5 GHz while the peak gain of the unit cell achieved 14.4 dBi at 28 GHz.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Low Cost AIP Design in 5G Flexible Antenna Phase Array System Application

Tung¹,

Liu²,

Chen

et al. 2020

Micromachines

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“…In this section, the antenna array design is introduced in detail, and its performances are evaluated. In order to verify and to compare the antenna in an array configuration to precedent AiP researches [9], [21], we chose the array size as 4 × 4. In addition, dummies were employed for maintaining uniformity of the radiation patterns of the active elements located on the outer edges, as described in [14].…”

Section: Antenna Array Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Cost-Effective Antenna-in-Package Design With a 4 × 4 Dual-Polarized High Isolation Patch Array for 5G mmWave Applications

2021

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A cost-effective antenna-in-package design based on a 4 × 4 dual-polarized high isolation patch array for 5G mmWave applications is proposed in this paper. To obtain a cost-effective design, we devised a four-layer metal stack-up structure with dielectric materials consisting of one TLY-5 polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and two FR-4 epoxies. The devised stack-up exhibits a simple and compact geometry due to the small number of layers, which allows the design to be manufactured using a low-priced standard printed-circuit-board process. Additionally, the employed material combination in the stack-up design possesses a high-end PTFE only in the region with the antenna radiators, which enables good antenna radiation performance at an affordable price. In addition, to design a high-isolation patch array for dual-polarized applications using the low-layer stack-up structure, we employed capacitive probes, defected ground structures, and the rotated-fed method in the proposed array design. With these techniques, the designed array exhibited excellent performance with respect to both port-to-port isolation and crosspolarization isolation. The mechanism of improvement in port-to-port isolation was clearly described using the established equivalent circuit model of the proposed structure. As a result, the fabricated antenna-inpackage has the reflection coefficients of less than -10 dB in the targeted frequency range of 26.5-29.5 GHz and has a peak gain of 17.37 dBi at 28 GHz. The measured port-to-port isolations and crosspolarization isolations are higher than 22.63 and 30 dB in the targeted frequency band, respectively.INDEX TERMS 5G mm-Wave, antenna in package (AiP), capacitive probe, defected ground structure (DGS), dual-polarized patch antennas

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“…The other is based on electrical scanning, whose principle is to achieve the angular deflection of the wavefront by electrical engineering the phase distributions. This method is convenient and can be adopted by using various antenna structures, such as resonator cavity [4][5][6], reflect array [7][8][9][10], dipole antenna [11,12], and patch array [13][14][15]. In particular, the patch array antenna provides a simple solution with a low profile, compact size, low cost, and ease of integration with planar circuits [16].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tunable Beam Steering, Focusing and Generating of Orbital Angular Momentum Vortex Beams Using High-Order Patch Array

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In this paper, a tunable patch array based on high-order is proposed at the frequency of 300 GHz, achieving active controllable beam steering, focusing and generation of orbital angular momentum vortex beams. It has been demonstrated that the patch array can achieve wide beam scanning angle by controlling the phase of array elements with tunable phase shifters. Meanwhile, beam focusing on the specified position can also be realized by phase modulation of array elements based on the focusing theory. In addition, we also designed a patch array to generate vortex beams with multiple topological charges by high-order modes. The performances show that the patch antenna array we designed has a good application prospect.

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A Low-Cost and High-Gain 60-GHz Differential Phased Array Antenna in PCB Process

Cited by 24 publications

References 27 publications

Low Cost AIP Design in 5G Flexible Antenna Phase Array System Application

Low Cost AIP Design in 5G Flexible Antenna Phase Array System Application

A Cost-Effective Antenna-in-Package Design With a 4 × 4 Dual-Polarized High Isolation Patch Array for 5G mmWave Applications

Tunable Beam Steering, Focusing and Generating of Orbital Angular Momentum Vortex Beams Using High-Order Patch Array

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