scholarly journals Broadband Dual-Polarized Loop Cross-Dipole Antenna for 5G Base Station Applications

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1574
Author(s):  
Chenyang Liao ◽  
Bin Wang ◽  
Congcong Zhu ◽  
Honggang Hao ◽  
Bo Yin

A broadband dual-polarized base station antenna is proposed in this paper. The antenna consists of loop cross-dipoles, Y-shaped coupling feeding lines, and a metal box reflector. An equivalent circuit model including a signal flow diagram is established to analyze the mechanism of the proposed antenna in detail. Moreover, the Y-shaped coupling feeding lines are introduced to control the coupling with the antenna to achieve broadband and good impedance matching. The prototype of the antenna is fabricated and measured. The measured results show that the antenna with simple structures can operate at the band of 3.2–5.22 GHz (48%) with high port-to-port isolation (35 dB) and stable gain (9 ± 1 dBi). The measured results show good agreement with simulated results, especially in cross-polarization discrimination ratio (>27 dB) and the half power beam width (61° ± 3° at the E-plane, 68° ± 3° at the H-plane). In summary, the proposed antenna could be a good candidate for 5G sub-6 GHz base station applications.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lixia Yang ◽  
Hafiz Usman Tahseen ◽  
Syed Shah Irfan Hussain ◽  
Wang Hongjin

Abstract A triple-band ±45° dual-polarized dipole antenna is presented in this paper. The proposed antenna covers two bands from n77 and one from n79 5G NR frequency spectrums. The profile antenna exhibits the measured impedance bandwidths 3.6-3.85 GHz, 4.05-4.2 GHz and 4.8- 5.15 GHz with S11, S22 < - 15dB return loss. Antenna is fabricated with four substrates; one radiator, one reflector and two feeding baluns. Antenna is designed and optimized with HFSS simulator and fabricated for experimental verification. Antenna gives a stable radiation pattern with 8.55dBi high gain and 70° half power beam width (HPBW) that makes it a good candidate for wireless 5G sub-6 GHz and multiband base station applications. Finally, antenna is tested in a realistic application environment to show the utility of the proposed antenna for wireless sub-6 GHz IoT applications.


Frequenz ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paikhomba Loktongbam ◽  
Chaitali Koley ◽  
Debasish Pal ◽  
Ayan Kumar Bandyopadhyay

AbstractThis paper presents a novel E armed dipole antenna for System On Chip (SOC) applications in the Sub-THz frequency band. The antenna is printed on a corrugated silicon substrate which suppresses surface waves and provides high efficiency and gain. The corrugated substrate also provides a better impedance matching. The antenna has a simulated gain of 5.4 dBi and 3 dB beam-width of 83.5 degree. The proposed antenna also has a very high radiation efficiency of 90%. Antenna resonates at 141.8 GHz and has an approximate −10 dB bandwidth of 1 GHz. To investigate the effects of different design parameters, some parametric analysis has been carried out and results have been shown. An equivalent circuit model has been reported. The equivalent circuit has been used to find the resonant frequency of the proposed dipole. The deviation of simulated and calculated resonant frequency is less than 0.5% which is well within the acceptable limits for antennas operating in mm-wave and sub-THz frequency band. This antenna is well suited for SOC, radar on-chip, high gain arrays, etc.


2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 718-725
Author(s):  
Narayanasamy RajeshKumar ◽  
Palani Sathya ◽  
Sharul Rahim ◽  
Akaa Eteng

An innovative method is proposed to improve the cross-polarization performance and impedance matching of a microstrip antenna by integrating a complimentary split ring resonator and slots as a defected ground structure. An equivalent circuit model (ECM) enables the design take into consideration the mutual coupling between the antenna patch and the Defected Ground Structure. The input impedance and surface current density analysis confirms that the integration of a CSRR within a rectangular microstrip patch antenna leads to uniform comparative cross-polarization level below 40 dB in the H-plane, over an angular range of ± 50°. Introducing parallel slots, as well, leads to a reduction of spurious antenna radiation, thereby improving the impedance matching. Measurements conducted on a fabricated prototype are consistent with simulation results. The proposed antenna has a peak gain of 4.16 dB at 2.6 GHz resonating frequency, and hence is good candidate for broadband service applications.


Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anurag Singh ◽  
Sandip Vijay ◽  
Rudra Narayan Baral

In this paper, a low cross-polarization improved-gain rectangular patch antenna is presented. A patch-ground shorting pin with defected patch structure (DPS) is introduced to suppress the cross-polarization level. A High Reflective Frequency Selective Surface (HRFSS) superstrate is designed and placed over the proposed antenna at an optimized position to intensify the gain. To characterize the unit-cell of the superstrate, its transmission characteristics are extracted and discussed. Integration of the superstrate achieves a beam contraction resulting in a gain enhancement to 10.65 dBi. The proposed antenna has perfect broadside radiation with a cross-polarization level of below −30 dB in the entire half power beamwidth. The prototype of the antenna exhibits good agreement between experimental and simulated results.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biying Han ◽  
Qi Wu ◽  
Chen Yu ◽  
Haiming Wang ◽  
Xiqi Gao ◽  
...  

Very high wind loads represent one of the major problems for the ultralarge-scale 5G base station array at the sub-6 GHz band, where dozens of or hundreds of antennas are used. An ultracompact dual-polarized cross-dipole antenna with an extremely small overall projected area is presented. The array with low wind load is realized by miniaturized cross dipoles and the replacement of the traditional ground plane with a defected ground structure (DGS) and metal mesh reflector. The DGS is utilized to realize size reduction and isolation enhancement. The projected area of the antenna is reduced by 70%. Therefore, each antenna in the array can be independently packaged using a streamlined radome with a low wind load. And the inter-radome spacing is large enough to make holes that are used to further reduce wind load. The antenna prototype is designed, fabricated, and measured for the sub-1 GHz band. The measured results show that the impedance bandwidth is 680-970 MHz, the polarization isolation is higher than 20 dB, and the gain is around 6.5 dBi. It is verified that the proposed ultracompact antenna of high radiation performance is very suitable for an ultralarge-scale array of low wind load in a 5G base station.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 1392-1403
Author(s):  
Mikhail M Krasnov ◽  
Natalia D Novikova ◽  
Roger Cattaneo ◽  
Alexey A Kalenyuk ◽  
Vladimir M Krasnov

Impedance matching and heat management are important factors influencing the performance of terahertz sources. In this work we analyze thermal and radiative properties of such devices based on mesa structures of a layered high-temperature superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ. Two types of devices are considered containing either a conventional large single crystal or a whisker. We perform numerical simulations for various geometrical configurations and parameters and make a comparison with experimental data for the two types of devices. It is demonstrated that the structure and the geometry of both the superconductor and the electrodes play important roles. In crystal-based devices an overlap between the crystal and the electrode leads to appearance of a large parasitic capacitance, which shunts terahertz emission and prevents impedance matching with open space. The overlap is avoided in whisker-based devices. Furthermore, the whisker and the electrodes form a turnstile (crossed-dipole) antenna facilitating good impedance matching. This leads to more than an order of magnitude enhancement of the radiation power efficiency in whisker-based, compared to crystal-based, devices. These results are in good agreement with presented experimental data.


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