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Millimeter Wave Antennas for 5G Mobile Terminals and Base Stations

by Shiban Kishen Koul, G.S. Karthikeya

November 2020

Intermediate to advanced

258 pages

English

CRC Press

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1.1 Need for Millimeter Waves1.2 Antennas for Cellular Communications1.3 Contrast between 4G and 5G Architectures1.4 Antenna Designs for mmWave 5G Mobile Terminals and Base Stations1.4.1 Antennas for Mobile Terminals1.4.2 Antennas for Base Stations1.5 Antennas beyond 5G1.6 Outline of the BookReferences

2.1 Introduction2.2 Typical Requirements for Mobile Antennas2.3 CPW-fed Wideband Corner Bent Antenna for 5G Mobile Terminals2.3.1 CPW-fed Wideband Antenna2.3.2 CPW-fed Corner Bent Antenna2.3.3 CPW-fed Corner Bent Antenna with Reflector2.4 A wideband High Gain Conformal Antenna for mmWave 5G Smartphones2.5 Design Guidelines for CPW-fed Conformal Antennas at Ka Band2.6 ConclusionReferences
3.1 Introduction3.2 Overview of Flexible Substrates for mmWave Applications3.3 Corner Bent Patch Antenna for Portrait Mode3.4 Corner Bent Tapered Slot Antenna for Landscape Mode3.5 Dielectric Loaded Polycarbonate-Based Vivaldi Antenna3.6 ConclusionReferences
4.1 Introduction4.2 CPW-fed Conformal Folded Dipole with Pattern Diversity4.2.1 CPW-Fed Folded Dipole4.2.2 Conformal Folded Dipole Backed by Reflector4.3 Conformal Antennas with Pattern Diversity4.3.1 Mobile Terminal Usage Modes4.3.2 Conformal Patch Antenna4.3.3 Conformal Tapered Slot Antenna4.3.4 Conformal TSA with Parasitic Ellipse4.3.5 Conformal Pattern Diversity4.4 Case Studies: Measurement in a Typical Indoor Environment4.5 ConclusionReferences
5.1 Introduction5.2 Pattern Diversity of Path Loss Compensated Antennas for 5G Base Stations5.2.1 mmWave Tapered Slot Antenna5.2.2 Dielectric and Metamaterial Loaded TSA5.2.3 Pattern Diversity5.3 Path Loss Compensated Pattern Diversity Antennas with 3D Printed Radome5.3.1 3D Printed Radome for a Patch Antenna5.3.2 Pattern Diversity with 3D Printed Radome5.4 Path Loss Compensated Module with Progressive Offset ZIM5.4.1 Central Element: Tapered Slot Antenna5.4.2 Spatially Modulated ZIM Loaded Antenna5.4.3 Stacked Pattern Diversity5.5 Path Loss Compensated Quasi-Reflector Module5.6 Design Guidelines for High Aperture Efficiency Antenna5.7 Case Studies: Measurement in a Typical Indoor Environment5.8 ConclusionReferences
6.1 Introduction6.2 Shared Aperture Antenna6.3 DPZIM Design and Characterization6.4 Shared Aperture Antenna with DPZIM6.5 Design Guidelines for High-Gain Dual-Polarized Antenna Module6.6 ConclusionReferences
7.1 Introduction7.2 Miniaturization Techniques for Antenna Size Reduction7.3 Conformal 4G LTE MIMO Antenna Design7.3.1 CRLH-Based Conformal 4G LTE Antenna7.3.2 Compact CRLH-Based Conformal 4G LTE MIMO Antenna7.4 Conformal mmWave 5G MIMO Antenna7.5 Corner Bent Integrated Design of 4G LTE and mmWave 5G Antennas7.5.1 4G LTE Antenna Design7.5.2 mmWave 5G Antenna Design7.5.3 Co-Designed Corner Bent 4G LTE and mmWave 5G MIMO Antennas7.6 Case Study: Co-Design of 4G and 5G Antennas in a Smartphone7.7 ConclusionReferences
8.1 Introduction8.2 Phased Array Designs for mmWave Frequencies8.3 Need for Corner Bent Phased Array8.4 Corner Bent Phased Array on Polycarbonate8.5 Design Guidelines for a Phased Array at Ka Band8.6 ConclusionReferences
9.1 Introduction9.2 Fabrication Process and Associated Tolerances9.3 S-parameter Measurements9.4 Pattern Measurements and Sources of Error9.5 Gain Measurements9.6 ConclusionReferences
10.1 Introduction10.2 PCB-Based Antenna Designs for 5G Cellular Devices10.3 Application of Additive Manufacturing for Antennas 10.3.1 A Dual Band mmWave Antenna on 3D Printed Substrate10.4 On-Chip Antennas for CMOS Circuitry 10.4.1 A Wideband CPS-Fed Dipole on Silicon10.5 Optically Transparent Antennas10.6 ConclusionReferences
Appendix A: Hints for Simulations in Ansys HFSSA.1 ModellingAppendix B: Measurement Issues with End-Launch ConnectorAppendix C: Material Parameters’ Extraction Using S-parametersAppendix D: Useful MATLAB CodesReferences