Challenges and Future Trends in Antenna Technology
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Electronic Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 October 2025 | Viewed by 255
Special Issue Editor
Interests: antennas and propagation; microwave imaging; RF/microwave filters; linear and nonlinear circuits; MIMO/diversity antennas; 5G/6G antennas; RFID antennas; power amplifiers; phase shifters; power dividers
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Dear Colleagues,
The upgrading of wireless systems from fourth-generation (4G) to fifth-generation (5G) technology has enabled new challenges for researchers at academic institutions and the engineers in industry by demanding a high level of innovation on RF front-end systems. As of recently, 5G is widely becoming the generation of wireless communications that will enable RF/microwave applications to expand into a completely new set of uses, cases, and vertical markets. The main structure of any front-end system includes antennas, filters, and power amplifiers (PAs)/low-noise amplifiers (LNAs). To meet the requirements for the latest transceiver generations, designers should carefully consider the new challenges and future trends in recent antenna technologies. Massive MIMO antenna systems and the use of high-frequency bands, such as mmWave and terahertz frequencies, have been investigated to a substantial degree as key technologies for future wireless applications. Using new physical materials, such as reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) and metamaterials, is another requirement for these applications. This not only brings challenges on the design level but also to the simulation, manufacturing, test, and measurement stages to obtain a sensible target for the prototypes.
This Special Issue invites academic researchers, industrial R&D, and engineers to contribute original research articles as well as review papers that seek to address the challenges and future trends in the design and application of new antenna technologies for 5G and beyond systems to support the large demands of this fast-evolving era.
Dr. Yasir Al-Yasir
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antennas
- mmWave
- terahertz
- massive MIMO
- RIS
- 5G
- filter
- power amplifiers
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