Antennas and Arrays in Wireless Communication Systems
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2026 | Viewed by 248
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multi-beam antenna; leaky-wave antenna; 3D printed antenna
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2. State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
Interests: metamaterials; metasurfaces; spoof surface plasmon polaritons; leaky-wave antennas; metamaterial antennas; array antennas
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The relentless drive toward higher frequencies, wider bandwidths, and denser channel reuse is turning the antenna and array into the critical bottleneck of every next-generation link. Whether steering pencil beams through mmWave urban canyons, stitching together cell-free massive-MIMO coverage, or weaving sub-THz joint communication-and-sensing apertures, future radios demand radiators that are simultaneously broadband, low-profile, tightly packed, and thermally resilient. Achieving these conflicting goals calls for a fundamental rethink of element geometry, feed topology, mutual-coupling control, material integration, and package co-design—advances that must originate at the antenna level long before signal-processing algorithms can offer any further gain. This Special Issue welcomes theoretical, computational, and experimental contributions that push the physical limits of antennas and arrays to meet the escalating performance, efficiency, and reliability targets of 5G-Advanced and 6G wireless systems.
This Special Issue seeks to gather and spotlight the latest advancements in antenna and array architecture—breakthroughs that will extend the reach of next-generation wireless systems and continually redraw the boundaries of what electromagnetic apertures can achieve. We warmly welcome researchers and industry professionals to submit original contributions that advance the state of the art across, but not limited to, the following areas:
- Antenna array;
- Phased array antenna;
- MIMO antenna;
- Antenna decoupling;
- Reconfigurable antenna;
- Beamforming;
- Terminal Antenna;
- Rectenna;
- wearable antennas;
- Millimeter-wave and THz antennas.
Dr. Yuanxi Cao
Dr. Meng Wang
Dr. Enlin Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antenna array
- phased array antenna
- MIMO antenna
- antenna decoupling
- reconfigurable antenna
- beamforming
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