A Novel Dual-Band (38/60 GHz) Patch Antenna for 5G Mobile Handsets

A compact dual-frequency ( $38/60 \mathrm{GHz}$ ) microstrip patch antenna with novel design is proposed for 5G mobile handsets to combine complicated radiation mechanisms for dual-band operation. The proposed antenna is composed of two electromagnetically coupled patches. The first patch is directly fed by a microstrip line and is mainly responsible for radiation in the lower band ( $38 \mathrm{GHz}$ ). The second patch is fed through both capacitive and inductive coupling to the first patch and is mainly responsible for radiation in the upper frequency band ( $60 \mathrm{GHz}$ ). Numerical and experimental results show good performance regarding return loss, bandwidth, radiation patterns, radiation efficiency, and gain. The impedance matching bandwidths achieved in the $38 \mathrm{GHz}$ and $60 \mathrm{GHz}$ bands are about $2 \mathrm{GHz}$ and $3.2 \mathrm{GHz}$ , respectively. The minimum value of the return loss is $-42$ dB for the $38 \mathrm{GHz}$ band and $-47$ for the $60 \mathrm{GHz}$ band. Radiation patterns are omnidirectional with a balloon-like shape for both bands, which makes the proposed single antenna an excellent candidate for a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system constructed from a number of properly allocated elements for 5G mobile communications with excellent diversity schemes. Numerical comparisons show that the proposed antenna is superior to other published designs. View Full-Text