Wideband Sub-6 GHz Self-Grounded Bow-Tie Antenna with New Feeding Mechanism for 5G Communication Systems
Paper in proceeding, 2019
This paper presents a self-grounded directional Bow-Tie antenna with a novel feed structure for sub-6 GHz applications in 5G communication systems covering 3.35-4.4 GHz. The antenna consists of two petal shaped metal structures that are fed by a bend microstrip line with an out-of-phase excitation. The petals are anchored on a common ground-plane. The feed mechanism used to excite the petals is by EM coupling from a single open-circuited microstrip line implemented behind the ground-plane. The coupling of EM energy from the input microstrip line to the feed microstrip line is controlled via an I-shaped slot printed on the ground-plane. The proposed antenna offers good impedance matching across its operating frequency range with VSWR<2 and exhibits an average gain of 20 dBi for an 8×8 element antenna array.
5G communication systems
single-polarized
feeding mechanism
self-grounded
Bowtie antenna
Author
Mohammad Alibakhshikenari
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Sadegh Mansouri Moghaddam
Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks
Ashraf Uz Zaman
Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks
Jian Yang
Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks
Bal Singh Virdee
London Metropolitan University
E. Limiti
University of Rome Tor Vergata
13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2019
Vol. March 2019 8739363
978-88-907018-8-7 (ISBN)
13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2019
Krakow, Poland,
Krakow, Poland,
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