Abstract

This paper presents the design of a compact size band patch antenna for 5G wireless communications. This wideband antenna was designed on a glass substrate (12 × 11 × 2 mm3) and is optically transparent and compact. It consists of a radiation patch and a ground plane using AgHT-8 material. The antenna design comprises rectangular shaped branches optimized to attain the wideband characteristics. The calculated impedance bandwidth is 7.7% covering the frequency range of 25 to 27 GHz. A prototype of the antenna and various parameters such as return loss plot, gain plot, radiation pattern plot, and voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) are presented and discussed. The simulated results of this antenna show that it is well suited for future 5G applications because of its transparency, flexibility, light weight, and wide achievable frequency bandwidth near the millimeter wave frequency band.

Highlights

  • Over recent decades, wireless mobile communication technology has developed significantly despite its relatively recent establishment

  • Transparent antennas operating in the wireless frequency regions are useful in glass-mounted applications including automobiles, homes, and businesses where transmission and reception through or from a window is desired

  • Transparent antennas have been fabricated with AgHT materials, indium tin oxide (ITO) [4,5], and fluorine doped tin oxide on glass and polyimide

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Introduction

Wireless mobile communication technology has developed significantly despite its relatively recent establishment. The modern telecommunication industries are already moving towards 5G enabled devices, and some are working on fully transparent and flexible devices [3]. Such cases create the need for flexible and transparent antennas to be designed in the 5G and millimeter wave frequency band. Transparent antennas operating in the wireless frequency regions are useful in glass-mounted applications including automobiles, homes, and businesses where transmission and reception through or from a window is desired. The use of a transparent conductor can pose challenges in fabrication and in application [6]

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