A 28 ghz broadband helical inspired end-fire antenna and its mimo configuration for 5g pattern diversity applications

Hijab Zahra; Wahaj Abbas Awan; Wael Abd Ellatif Ali; Niamat Hussain; Syed Muzahir Abbas; Subhas Mukhopadhyay

doi:10.3390/electronics10040405

A 28 ghz broadband helical inspired end-fire antenna and its mimo configuration for 5g pattern diversity applications

Hijab Zahra^*, Wahaj Abbas Awan, Wael Abd Ellatif Ali, Niamat Hussain, Syed Muzahir Abbas, Subhas Mukhopadhyay

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In this paper, an end-fire antenna for 28 GHz broadband communications is proposed with its multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) configuration for pattern diversity applications in 5G communication systems and the Internet of Things (IoT). The antenna comprises a simple geo-metrical structure inspired by a conventional planar helical antenna without utilizing any vias. The presented antenna is printed on both sides of a very thin high-frequency substrate (Rogers RO4003, ε_r = 3.38) with a thickness of 0.203 mm. Moreover, its MIMO configuration is characterized by reasonable gain, high isolation, good envelope correlation coefficient, broad bandwidth, and high diversity gain. To verify the performance of the proposed antenna, it was fabricated and verified by experimental measurements. Notably, the antenna offers a wide −10 dB measured impedance rang-ing from 26.25 GHz to 30.14 GHz, covering the frequency band allocated for 5G communication systems with a measured peak gain of 5.83 dB. Furthermore, a performance comparison with the state-of-the-art mm-wave end-fire antennas in terms of operational bandwidth, electrical size, and various MIMO performance parameters shows the worth of the proposed work.

Original language	English
Article number	405
Pages (from-to)	1-15
Number of pages	15
Journal	Electronics
Volume	10
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040405
Publication status	Published - 2 Feb 2021

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28 GHz
end-fire antenna
millimeter-wave communication
IoT
Internet of things
5G antenna

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