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Corporate-Series Fed Microstrip Array Antenna with Yagi Elements for 5G

  • Kim, Geun-Sik (Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Chosun University) ;
  • Choi, Dong-You (Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Chosun University)
  • Received : 2020.05.21
  • Accepted : 2020.09.14
  • Published : 2020.09.30
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Abstract

The present paper presents an array antenna of a microstrip patch for 5G applications. Four rectangular microstrip patch elements are arranged in parallel and series to form an array antenna. Two insets are made on both sides of each patch element to achieve a wide frequency bandwidth of 23.97-31.60 GHz. To attain a high gain and wider bandwidth, the microstrip patch antenna is fed using series and corporate feeding networks. Further, three director elements on top of the top-most patch elements, and one reflector element at the open end of each patch element, are added. The addition of the Yagi elements improved the overall gain and acquired a higher radiation efficiency throughout the operating frequency bandwidth, with the array antenna achieving a maximum peak gain of 8.7 dB. The proposed antenna is built on a low-loss and low-cost substrate of FR4-eproxy. The proposed antenna design with a simple structure is suitable for Internet of Things and 5G applications.

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