Wideband Asymmetric Coplanar Strip Fed Antennas With Pattern Diversity for mmWave 5G Base Stations
M. Idrees Magray, G. S. Karthikeya, Khalid Muzaffar, Shiban K. Koul, Ayaz Hassan Moon
Abstract
A compact asymmetric coplanar strip (ACS)-fed mmWave 5G antenna with 6.5-7.5 dBi end-fire gain is presented in this paper. The proposed antenna is wideband, operating from 26-32 GHz with fractional bandwidth of 20.7%. The proposed single element antenna has dimensions of 6 × 10 mm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> demonstrating small physical and electrical footprint. The antenna achieves 1-dB gain bandwidth of 20.7% which demonstrates pattern integrity over whole operating band. The reported antenna also achieves reasonable gain for the available aperture. In order to achieve pattern diversity, a shared ground compact two-port antenna topology is next presented for beam switching at ±30°. In addition to this, a quasi-stacked beam switching module integrated with low cost 3D-printed scaffolding with wide angular coverage is proposed with adequate technical justification.