RF/Microwave Circuits for 5G and Beyond
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 55980
Special Issue Editors
Interests: reconfigurable antennas; microwave filters; tunable filters; linear and nonlinear circuits; MIMO/diversity antennas; differentially fed structures; balanced antennas; 5G/6G antennas; RFID antennas; power amplifiers; applied electromagnetics; RF/microwave sensors
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Interests: optimization and learning; acoustics; smart cities; sensors; Internet of Things
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The progress from fourth-generation (4G) networks to fifth-generation (5G) technology has transformed industry and society by enabling an unprecedented level of innovation on the radiofrequency (RF), microwave and millimeter wave (mmWave) components. 5G is widely seen as the generation of wireless communications that will enable RF/microwave applications to expand into a completely new set of use, case, and vertical markets. Given that 5G is still in its initial stages commercially, much work still needs to be done onchannel modeling, radio link performance, and finally, chipset development before the first realistic applications can be deployed. As the commercial deployment of the 5G technology is well under way in many countries of the world, academic as well as industrial research groups have turned their consideration to what comes next. Thus, one might reasonably expect a “6G” release to arrive at some point in the future.
It is clear that future front and systems must be multistandard radio, supported by identical RF transceivers within the infrastructures and on the user terminal, and they must also take advantage of new technology models such as reconfigurability and software‐defined radio (SDR). RF/microwave circuits and their applications, such as antennas, filters, power amplifiers, phase shifters, power dividers, mixers, multiplexers, ceramics, and integrated systems, are representing essential elements in such devices, which significantly affect the whole performance of the 5G/6G front end transceivers.
This Special Issue invites academic and industrial scholars and researchers to contribute original research articles as well as review articles that seek to address the issues, trends, and challenges of design and application of RF/microwave components for 5G and beyond systems to support multistandard radio flexibility both at the base station and at the user terminal, whilst being energy-efficient in an energy‐conscious world.
Dr. Yasir Al-Yasir
Dr. Chan Hwang See
Dr. Bo Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- RF transceivers
- Antennas and propagation
- Microwave filters
- Power amplifiers
- Multiplexers
- Power dividers
- MIMO systems
- Phased array and beamforming
- Metamaterial
- 5G/6G
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