A Low-Cost Dual-Band Multimode High-Gain Stacked-Patch Antenna Based on SISL for 5G Applications
J. Hao, Ningning Yan, Yu Luo, Haipeng Fu, Kaixue Ma
Abstract
A dual-band multimode high-gain stacked-patch antenna based on substrate integrated suspended line (SISL) is proposed for 5G applications. The proposed antenna comprises five low-cost FR4 dielectric substrate layers and ten metal layers with embedded air cavities. The driven patch generates TM <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">10</sub> mode and TM <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">02</sub> mode, and the other two modes are generated by etching the U-slot and horizontal slot on the driven patch to achieve dual-band. The stacked patch with the U-slot can suppress the radiation pattern split of TM <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">02</sub> mode, improve the antenna gain in the high-frequency band, and generate radiation null to increase the out-of-band gain-suppression level. To verify this principle, the antenna is fabricated and measured. The measured results show good agreement with the simulated ones and the proposed antenna operates at 3.21–3.66 and 4.75–5.40 GHz, which can cover the 5G communication band. The antenna has high efficiency. The maximum gains in the two bands are 9.12 and 8.65 dBi, respectively.