Single-Layer, Unidirectional, Broadside-Radiating Planar Quadrupole Antenna for 5G IoT Applications
Abstract : In this paper, an innovative quadrupole-based broadside-radiating unidirectional antenna is designed at 28.475 GHz for 5G IoT applications. The planar antenna is based on a single-layer technology and realized on a flexible substrate to facilitate conformal applications. It consists of a coax-fed driven dipole and two quadrupolar near-field resonant parasitic (NFRP) elements. The broadside-radiating design achieves a unidirectional pattern with a realized gain of 4.85 dBi and a front-to-back ratio of 9.4 dB. The total efficiency of the antenna is 85%. A differential-fed prototype was designed, fabricated, and tested at 1.579 GHz to make the measurements more manageable. The measured and simulated results are in good agreement.
? While it is well-known that superdirective solutions exist and suffer ill-posedness issues in principle, a detailed needle solution has not been reported previously.
? If the Transmit and Receive antenna are in line of sight (LOS) then direct path exist.
? Depending on the existing conditions in the troposphere, a radio wave will undergo any of the types of refraction: sub refraction, standard refraction, super refraction or trapping.
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? It arose from slight fabrication errors and the differential-feed connection issues.
? After achieving a structure with the desired radiation pattern, the impacts on the performance of the design were assessed when its structural parameters were varied.
? It eliminated the impact of any cable leakage currents on the measured results.
? Moreover, when one examines the amplitudes of the coefficients as N increases, one finds problems with these very high order modes.
? While it does take more terms, the multipole antenna does recover the needle behavior without the sidelobe issues.
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• While transmission lines are designed to minimize this radiation loss, radiation into free space becomes main purpose in case of Antennas.
• While dealing with radio propagation profiles, the curved radio rays are replaced with linear rays for the purpose of geometric simplicity.
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? Moreover, it has been demonstrated that their designs can be adjusted to maintain their performance characteristics even in the presence of high permittivity materials as would be encountered by on-body/on-surface wireless sensors.
? Because antennas are the enabling technology of any wireless device, they must be designed and integrated with the sensors on flexible substrates to conform to a body and to achieve the appropriate performance characteristics that empower the communication aspects of those sensors in the body-centric and off-body wireless networks.
? Therefore, it is necessary for on-body/on-surface IoT applications to develop a unidirectional antenna that is flexible without a ground plane and that has a simple design, high radiation efficiency, and low manufacturing costs.
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