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Corner Bent Phased Array for 5G Mobile Terminals
8.1Introduction
Phased arrays are one of the most advertised antenna designs for millimeter wave 5G cellular devices, for numerous reasons. Since the higher path loss must be mitigated to achieve a reasonable link budget, it is important to design high gain antennas on the transceivers integrated with the mobile terminal. The problem is unique in the context of 5G mobile terminals, as previous commercial systems used electrically small antennas with poor gain. The simplest solution to increase gain of the antenna under consideration is to increase its effective radiating aperture [1,2]. One of the strategies to increase the radiating aperture would be to design a reflector-based antenna ...
