Quad-band Compact MIMO Antennas for 5G Mobile Communications

Authors

  • Asmaa E. Farahat Microwave Engineering Department, Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, 11843, Egypt https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5983-0808
  • Khalid F. A. Hussein Microwave Engineering Department, Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, 11843, Egypt

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/2022.ACES.J.370806

Keywords:

MIMO Antennas, Quad-band, 5G

Abstract

Three types of quad-band millimetric-wave two-port MIMO antenna systems are proposed for the forthcoming generations of mobile handsets. A novel printed antenna is introduced to be the single element of the proposed MIMO antennas. It is shown that the proposed MIMO antennas are capable of producing both spatial and polarization diversities that enhance the performance of mobile communications. Two configurations of co-polarized two-port MIMO antennas are proposed to provide spatial diversity, whereas a cross-polarized two-port MIMO antenna is proposed to produce polarization diversity. It is shown that all the proposed MIMO antennas can operate efficiently over the four frequency bands centered at 28, 43, 52, and 57 GHz. Prototypes are fabricated for the proposed MIMO antennas for the sake of experimental evaluation. The measurements agree with the simulation results showing high performance of the proposed types of MIMO antennas including the impedance matching, radiation patterns, envelop correlation coefficient, and diversity gain. Both the experimental and simulation results show that the achieved bandwidths, at the four operational frequency bands, are 0.6, 0.6, 1.8, and 1.5 GHz, respectively. Also, the radiation efficiencies calculated at the four operational frequencies are 86.5%, 87.5%, 89.2%, and 90.0%, respectively. The dimensions and the results concerning the performance of the proposed MIMO antennas are compared to other designs for MIMO antennas available in some recently published work.

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Author Biographies

Asmaa E. Farahat, Microwave Engineering Department, Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, 11843, Egypt

Asmaa E. Farahat received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. She received her Ph.D. in 2012 from Ain Shams University. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Microwave Engineering of the Electronics Research Institute. She has approximately 16 years of scientific research experience. She has published more than 30 papers in international, regional, and local scientific journals and conferences. She has worked as secondary investigator for 3research projects. Her research interests include antennas, electromagnetic wave propagation, risk assessment of human exposure to microwave radiation, remote sensing systems, and radarsystems.

Khalid F. A. Hussein, Microwave Engineering Department, Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, 11843, Egypt

Khalid F. A. Hussein received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communications, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University in 1990, 1995 and 2001, respectively. He is currently as a professor at the Department of Microwave Engineering at the Electronics Research Institute. He has more than 30 years of scientific research experience. He has supervised more than 70 doctoral and master theses. He has published more than 110 papers in international, regional, and local scientific journals and conferences. He has served as Head of Microwave Engineering Department at the Electronics Research Institute for 4years. He has been a member of the Egyptian Space Program (currently the Egyptian Space Agency) for more than 8 years. He designed and implemented several satellite antennas between prototypes and finished products. His research interests include antennas, electromagnetic wave propagation, risk assessment of human exposure to microwave radiation, optical communications, photonics, quantum computing, radar systems, particularly ground penetrating radar (GPR), synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and remote sensing systems.

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2022-08-31

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A. E. . Farahat and K. F. A. . Hussein, “Quad-band Compact MIMO Antennas for 5G Mobile Communications”, ACES Journal, vol. 37, no. 08, pp. 875–885, Aug. 2022.

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