Quad-Band MIMO Antenna System for 5G Mobile Handsets

Authors

  • M. Abo El-Hassan Electronics Research Institute (ERI), Cairo, Egypt
  • A. E. Farahat Electronics Research Institute (ERI), Cairo, Egypt
  • K. F. A. Hussein Electronics Research Institute (ERI), Cairo, Egypt

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/2021.ACES.J.361105

Keywords:

MIMO antenna, Diversity gain, Quad-band antenna.

Abstract

An efficient Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) antenna system with a spatial diversity configuration for the Fifth Generation (5G) mobile handsets is constructed from a compact-size quad-band (28/45/51/56GHz28/45/51/56⁢GHz) microstrip patch antennas. The antenna is constructed as primary and secondary patches which are capacitively coupled and designed to realize impedance matching and to produce appropriate radiation patterns in the four frequency bands. The novel quad-band patch antenna includes complicated radiation mechanisms required for multiple-band operation. Two-port and four-port MIMO antenna systems that employ the quad-band patch antenna are proposed in the present work for the 5G mobile handsets. Numerical and experimental investigations are achieved to assess the performance of both the single-element antenna and the proposed MIMO antenna systems including the return loss at each antenna port and the coupling coefficients between the different ports. It is shown that the simulation results agree with the experimental measurements and both show good performance. The bandwidths achieved around 2828, 4545, 5151, and 5656 GHzGHz are about 0.60.6, 2.02.0, 1.81.8, and 1.31.3 GHzGHz, respectively. The radiation patterns produced when each port is excited alone are shown to be suitable for spatial diversity scheme with high radiation efficiency. It is shown that the envelope correlation coefficient (ECC) and the diversity gain (DG) are perfect over the four frequency bands.

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Author Biographies

M. Abo El-Hassan, Electronics Research Institute (ERI), Cairo, Egypt

M. Abo El-Hassan received her B.Sc., M.Sc., in Communications and Electronic Engineering, Communications Engineering from Menoufa University, Egypt, in 2007 and 2014 respectively. She received the PhD 2020. She is currently researcher at the Department of Microwave Engineering at the Electronics Research Institute.. Her current research interests include RFID, areas in Antennas, Chipless tags, SAR, Beam shaping. She has published more than 18 papers in international, regional and local scientific journals and conferences.

A. E. Farahat, Electronics Research Institute (ERI), Cairo, Egypt

Asmaa E. Farahat received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in the Department of Biomedical engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, 2002 and 2006, respectively. She received the PhD 2012, Ain Shams University. She is currently associate professor at the Department of Microwave Engineering at the Electronics Research Institute. She has work experience in scientific research for about 17 years. She has published more than 28 papers in international, regional and local scientific journals and conferences. She has worked as secondary investigator for three research projects. Her research interests are in the areas of antennas, electromagnetic wave propagation, risk assessment of human exposure to microwave radiation, remote sensing systems, and radar systems.

K. F. A. Hussein, Electronics Research Institute (ERI), Cairo, Egypt

Khalid F. A. Hussein received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communications, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, 1990, 1995 and 2001, respectively. He is currently a professor at the Department of Microwave Engineering at the Electronics Research Institute. He has work experience in scientific research for more than 30 years. He has teaching experience in engineering colleges in many universities for more than 20 years. He has supervised more than seventy doctoral and master theses. He has published more than 100 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 up to four years. He has been a member of the Egyptian Space Program (currently the Egyptian Space Agency) for more than eight years. He has worked as Principal Investigator for four research projects and Head of Research Group in four other research projects. He designed and implemented several satellite antennas between prototypes and finished products. He has provided scientific consultations and conducted field measurements related to the design and distribution of mobile communication base station antennas for good signal coverage in behalf of many Egyptian and international companies. His research interests are in the areas of 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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Published

2021-12-30

How to Cite

[1]
M. A. . El-Hassan, A. E. . Farahat, and K. F. A. . Hussein, “Quad-Band MIMO Antenna System for 5G Mobile Handsets”, ACES Journal, vol. 36, no. 11, pp. 1418–1428, Dec. 2021.

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2021: Vol 36 Iss 11

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