Dual-band substrate integrate waveguide slot antenna for 5G applications

Abstract

The current fifth generation (5G) and millimeterwave technologies are urgently needed to provide huge bandwidth, dual-bands, multi bands, high gain and high directivity radiation pattern beams antennas. However, antennas at millimeterwave suffer from radiation loss and component loss with narrow bandwidth, especially when it is implemented using microstrip structures. Different transmission lines such as waveguide and substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) are studied and introduced for realizing antennas at millimeterwave bands. SIW structures are good candidate for implementation of antenna due to its property of low loss transmission line comprises the properties of microstrip and waveguide technology. However, SIW antennas and structures at millimeterwave have unwanted radiation losses comes from the vias holes. In addition, the vias separation distance is depended on waveguide size, which leads to a bigger size for massive antenna array network at proposed 26 GHz and 28 GHz. Hence, this paper proposed a dual band, compact size, and optimal SIW antenna structure to reduce the vias losses and provides higher bandwidth and gain at 26 GHz and 28 GHz. The proposed design is implemented using three slots to achieve the dual band property and increases the return loss. The proposed design is simulated and studied using CST software. The outcomes of dual-band response at 26 GHz and 28 GHz with a return loss more than 10 dB and a fractional bandwidth of 15% are achieved. A good gain around 8 dB is achieved. These results give a promising solution for realizing a full antenna array based on SIW technology at millimeterwave and 5G technology.