FR4-PCB Smartphone Phased Array with Improved Performance for 5G Beam-Steering Applications
Creators
- 1. 1Faculty of Engineering and Informatics, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, UK
- 2. Bradford College, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1AY, UK
- 3. Faculty of Engineering, An-Najah National University, Palestine
- 4. 1Faculty of Engineering and Informatics, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, UK; Information and Communication Eng. Department, Basrah University College of Science and Technology, Basrah 24001, Iraq
Description
In this paper, a high efficiency phased array antenna is introduced for fifth-generation (5G) smartphones. The configuration of the design is achieved by employing eight insensitive L-ring/slot-loop resonatorss with linear array form on the top of the handset mainboard. The design exhibits high radiation performances even though the beam-steerable array is implemented on a lossy FR-4 material. The proposed design exhibit a frequency bandwidth of 18-20 GHz with a single resonance at 19 GHz. The designed antenna exhibits wide beam-steering, high efficiencies, and sufficient gain levels at 19 GHz of 5G communications. In addition, the proposed phased array design has sufficient radiation behavior in the adjacency of user-hand phantom. Moreover, its characteristics are insensitive for various substrate types.
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