Dual-band (28/38 GHz) Yagi–Uda Antenna with Corrugated Radiator and Triangular Reflectors for 5G Mobile Phones

Abstract

A novel printed design of a Yagi-Uda antenna is introduced for dual-band operation at 28/38 GHz. A corrugated strip dipole with a capacitively end-coupled extension strip is employed as the driven element. The proposed antenna has two triangular-shape reflectors and one director. The driven dipole is fed through a coaxial feed line constructed as three unequal length transition strips. A four-port MIMO antenna system constructed using the proposed Yagi-Uda is suggested for mobile phones. CST® simulator is used to study the effect of the different design parameters on the antenna gain and the operating bands. Numerical and experimental investigations are achieved to assess the performance of both the single-element antenna and the four-port MIMO antenna system. It is shown that the simulation results agree with the experimental measurements and both show good performance of the single antenna as well as the MIMO antenna system. The bandwidths achieved around 28 GHz and 38 GHz are about 4G Hz and 1.4 GHz, respectively. The gain of the antenna is about 9 and 10 dB at 28 and 38 GHz, respectively. The four antenna configuration shows radiation pattern diversity required for MIMO system. The envelope correlation coefficient (ECC) and the diversity gain (DG) are calculated and the results show that the proposed MIMO antenna system is suitable for the forthcoming 5G mobile communications.