A Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna Array for Millimeter Wave Applications
Abstract
In this paper, a low-profile broadband antenna is proposed for future 5G millimeter-wave cellular wireless networks. The proposed antenna is a modified Magneto-Electric (ME) dipole, which consists of four metallic plates, grounded vias, an aperture fed, a ground plane, and a microstrip line feed. The antennas are built on RT/Duroid 5880 substrates and have been realized by the printed circuit board technique. A single-element with an overall of 10×10×1.04mm3 (~1.26λo×1.26λo×0.13λo at 38GHz) exhibits an impedance matching of 27.9% (32.2-42.8GHz) for |S11|<–10dB and a realized gain up to 7.5dBi over the frequency band. The usefulness of these antennas as beamforming radiators is demonstrated by a 1×4 element linear array. Also, a wide-band excitation is applied for the linear ME dipole array to realize a broadband array. The simulated results proved the proposed array can operate in a frequency band spreading from 31.4GHz to 42.1GHz with a gain of 12.5dBi and a side-lobe of -13dB
Keywords:
magneto-electric dipole, millimeter wave, beamforming, antenna arrayDownloads
References
S. Rangan, T. S. Rappaport, and E. Erkip, "Millimeter-Wave Cellular Wireless Networks: Potentials and Challenges," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 102, no. 3, pp. 366-385, Mar. 2014. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2014.2299397
H. Alsaif, "Extreme Wide Band MIMO Antenna System for Fifth Generation Wireless Systems," Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 5492-5495, Apr. 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48084/etasr.3413
M. Azhar and A. Shabbir, "5G Networks: Challenges and Techniques for Energy Efficiency," Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 2864-2868, Apr. 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48084/etasr.1623
W. Roh et al., "Millimeter-wave beamforming as an enabling technology for 5G cellular communications: theoretical feasibility and prototype results," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 106-113, Feb. 2014. [5] O. M. Haraz, A. Elboushi, S. A. Alshebeili, and A.-R. Sebak, "Dense Dielectric Patch Array Antenna With Improved Radiation Characteristics Using EBG Ground Structure and Dielectric Superstrate for Future 5G Cellular Networks," IEEE Access, vol. 2, pp. 909-913, 2014. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2014.2352679
K.-M. Luk and B. Wu, "The Magnetoelectric Dipole-A Wideband Antenna for Base Stations in Mobile Communications," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 100, no. 7, pp. 2297-2307, Jul. 2012. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2012.2187039
L. Ge, X. Yang, Z. Dong, D. Zhang, and X. Zeng, "Reconfigurable Magneto-Electric Dipole Antennas for Base Stations in Modern Wireless Communication Systems," Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, vol. 2018, May 2018, Art. no. 2408923. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/2408923
K. B. Ng, H. Wong, K. K. So, C. H. Chan, and K. M. Luk, "60 GHz Plated Through Hole Printed Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 60, no. 7, pp. 3129-3136, Jul. 2012. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2012.2196916
M. Li and K.-M. Luk, "A Wideband Circularly Polarized Antenna for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Applications," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 1872-1879, Apr. 2014. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2014.2298246
M. Li and K.-M. Luk, "Wideband Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna for 60-GHz Millimeter-Wave Communications," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 63, no. 7, pp. 3276-3279, Jul. 2015. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2015.2425418
J. Sun and K.-M. Luk, "Wideband Magneto-Electric Dipole Antennas for Millimeter-Wave Applications with Microstrip Line Feed," in 2018 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), Busan, South Korea, Oct. 2018.
A. Chlavin, "A new antenna feed having equal E -and H-plane patterns," Transactions of the IRE Professional Group on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 113-119, Jul. 1954. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/T-AP.1954.27983
W. Y. Yong, T. Emanuelsson, and A. A. Glazunov, "5G Wideband Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna Fed by a Single-Layer Corporate-Feed Network based on Ridge Gap Waveguide," presented at the 14th European Conference on Antennnas and Propagation, EuCAP 2020, Mar. 2020, Accessed: Jul. 05, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://research.utwente.nl/en/publications/5g-wideband-magneto-electric-dipole-antenna-fed-by-a-single-layer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP48036.2020.9135588
Downloads
How to Cite
License
Copyright (c) 2020 Authors
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain the copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) after its publication in ETASR with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
