Super-Wideband and Highly-Miniaturized Phased Array for MM-Wave Smartphone Applications
Ahmed S. I. Amar, Mohammad Darwish, Naser Ojaroudi Parchin, Chan Hwang See, Mahmoud F. Ghareeb, Raed A. Abd‐Alhameed, Hadia El‐Hennawy
Abstract
This paper aims to investigate of new phased array design and its radiation characteristics with highly-miniaturized and super-wideband (SWB) properties. The procedure of the phased array design is simple and can be directly performed on a single-layer substrate material. Its schematic involves eight diamond-ring-shaped dipoles with end-fire radiation and the arrangement of a 1×8 linear on the smartphone mainboard’s edge made of RT5870 material with a thickness of 0.5 mm. The array elements are low-profile diamond-ring-shaped dipole resonators having discrete-feeding ports. the introduced array design represents a significant frequency range of 25 - 40 GHz covering multiple candidate bands in the 5G spectrum including 26, 28, 30, 36, and 38 GHz. Furthermore, the array elements’ mutual coupling function is below -15 dB. The proposed array appears Using a simplified design process, low complexity profile, and its attractive broad impedance bandwidth, end-fire radiation mode, and stable characteristics meet the needs of 5G applications in cellular communications.