A Multiband Shared Aperture MIMO Antenna for Millimeter-Wave and Sub-6GHz 5G Applications

Rifaqat Hussain; Mohamed Abou-Khousa; Naveed Iqbal; Abdullah Algarni; Saad I. Alhuwaimel; Azzedine Zerguine; Mohammad S. Sharawi

doi:10.3390/s22051808

A Multiband Shared Aperture MIMO Antenna for Millimeter-Wave and Sub-6GHz 5G Applications

Rifaqat Hussain, Mohamed Abou-Khousa, Naveed Iqbal, Abdullah Algarni, Saad I. Alhuwaimel^*, Azzedine Zerguine, Mohammad S. Sharawi

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Abstract

A shared aperture 2-element multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna design for 5G standards is presented in this study, one which uses the same radiating structure to cover both the sub-6GHz and millimeter-wave (millimeter-wave) bands. The proposed antenna comprises four concentric pentagonal slots that are uniformly separated from one another. For the sub-6GHz band, the antenna is excited by a single open-end microstrip transmission-line, while a 1 × 8 power divider (PD) connected via a T-junction structure excites the millimeter-wave band. Both the sub-6GHz and mm-wave antennas operate in a MIMO configuration. The proposed antenna design was fabricated on a 120 × 60 mm² substrate with an edge-to-edge distance of 49 mm. The proposed sub-6GHz antenna covers the following frequency bands: 4–4.5 GHz, 3.1–3.8 GHz, 2.48–2.9 GHz, 1.82–2.14 GHz, and 1.4–1.58 GHz, while the millimeter-wave antenna operates at 28 GHz with at least 500 MHz of bandwidth. A complete antenna analysis is provided via a step-by-step design procedure, an equivalent circuit diagram showing the operation of the shared aperture antenna, and current density analysis at both millimeter-wave and sub-6GHz bands. The proposed antenna design is also characterized in terms of MIMO performance metrics with a good MIMO operation with maximum envelop correlation coefficient value of 0.113. The maximum measured gain and efficiency values obtained were 91% and 8.5 dBi over the entire band of operation. The antenna is backward compatible with 4G bands and also encompasses the sub-6GHz and 28 GHz bands for future 5G wireless communcation systems.

Original language	English
Article number	1808
Journal	Sensors
Volume	22
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/s22051808
State	Published - 1 Mar 2022

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Keywords

5G
MIMO
Millimeter-wave
Shared aperture
Slot antenna
Sub-6GHz

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Analytical Chemistry
Information Systems
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Biochemistry
Instrumentation
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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