International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vol 8, No 4: August 2018

Dielectric Resonator Reflectarray Antenna Unit Cells for 5G Applications

Nur Fazreen Sallehuddin (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
Mohd Haizal Jamaluddin (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
Muhammad Ramlee Kamarudin (Cranfield University)
Muhammad Hashim Dahri (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
Siti Umairah Tajol Anuar (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Aug 2018

Abstract

This paper presents an investigation for the performance comparison of three different unit cell configurations operating at 26 GHz for 5G applications. The unit cells are cross shape dielectric resonator, cross microstrip patch and cross hybrid dielectric resonator. Verification of the comparison has been done by simulations using commercial Computer Simulation Technology Microwave Studio (CST MWS). The simulated results for reflection phase, slope variation, reflection loss and 10% bandwidth were analyzed and compared. The results indicate that the optimum configuration to be deployed for the reflectarray’s unit element in order to fulfill the 5G requirements of a wide bandwidth is the cross hybrid DRA. This configuration is a combination of cross DRA with cross microstrip patch as the parasitic element in order to tune the phase and provide a wide phase range with smooth variation slope. Cross hybrid DRA provided a wide phase range of 520° with 0.77 dB loss and 10% bandwidth of 160 MHz.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJECE

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Description

International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE, ISSN: 2088-8708, a SCOPUS indexed Journal, SNIP: 1.001; SJR: 0.296; CiteScore: 0.99; SJR & CiteScore Q2 on both of the Electrical & Electronics Engineering, and Computer Science) is the official publication of the Institute of ...