Circularly Polarized Printed MIMO Antenna for 5G Applications

Abstract This study provides a proposal for printed circularly polarized MIMO 5G antenna with four ports that are suitable for enhanced impedance bandwidth. The proposed circularly polarized MIMO antenna is designed at 28 GHz. The complementary split ring rectangular resonator with a defective ground plane is used to support the array, which is placed on a FR4 epoxy substrate that is 40 mm × 40 mm × 0.8 mm in physical size. The MIMO 5G antenna components are structured in an orthogonal arrangement with four identical patches that have a triangular cut. By integrating triangular cuts on rectangular patch and inset feeding techniques, the the designed antenna work across the whole frequency range with good impedance matching, increased gain, and with 1.5 GHz axial ratio bandwidth for circular polarization. The circular polarized MIMO 5G antenna that has been proposed achieves a gain of 5 dBi over bandwidth of 7GHz. The circularly polarized MIMO antenna would cover 5G bands between 25.5 GHz and 32.5 GHz and it provides an axial ratio bandwidth of 1.5 GHz from 27.25GHz to 28.75GHz, which will be deployed in the U.S. and Canada. In addition, a performance and analysis of the MIMO performance measures for the proposed architecture have been presented. An antenna prototype is built and tested to validate simulation results.