Novel Antenna Arrays in 5G/6G Communication
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 47
Special Issue Editors
Interests: phased array antennas; design of millimeter-wave frequency antennas; antennas for 5G/6G /6G dielectric resonator antennas; microstrip antennas; small antennas; microwave sensors; multi-function antennas; passive microwave circuits; beamforming network, EBG; artificial magnetic conductors; soft and hard surfaces
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Interests: MIMO arrays; over-the-air testing; near-field measurements
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the latest advances in microwave and millimeter-wave antenna arrays, along with challenges in their implementation, design, and testing. High-gain arrays above 30 dBi/dBci with high efficiency pose a challenge due to the potential high losses in the feeding and beamforming networks for scanning arrays. The phase-shifter-based feeding network can be costly for high-gain/large arrays. As a result, techniques to reduce the insertion loss and/or the cost of the feeding network are highly desirable. Moreover, measuring the scanning array can be extremely time-consuming, due to the repeated testing required by the multi-beam array. We consider contributions addressing the above-mentioned challenges.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- linearly and circularly polarized high-gain arrays
- dually polarized arrays, reconfigurable arrays
- low-sidelobe arrays, multi-beam arrays
- sparse/thinned scanning arrays
- multi-beam testing
- (phaseless) near-field measurement
- efficient feeding network technology
- beamforming networks for planar arrays.
Prof. Dr. Ahmed A. Kishk
Prof. Dr. Xiaoming Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- high-gain arrays
- low-sidelobe arrays
- multi-beam arrays
- sparse/thinned scanning arrays
- multi-beam testing
- (phaseless) near-field measurement
- planar beamforming network
- efficient feeding network technology
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