Proceedings of the 3rd International Multi-Disciplinary Conference: “Integrated Sciences and Technologies”, IMDC-IST 2023, 25-27 October 2023, Yola, Nigeria

Research Article

Dual Band Reconfigurable Antenna For Sub 6GHz and Millimeter Wave Bands For 5G Mobile Applications

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.25-10-2023.2348724,
        author={Abubakar  Salisu and Atta  Ullah and Umar  Musa and Mobayode O. Akinsolu and Ibrahim  Gharbia and Ahmad  Aldelemy and Mustapha A Modibbo and Umar  Usman and A. S. Hussaini},
        title={Dual Band Reconfigurable Antenna For Sub 6GHz and Millimeter Wave Bands For 5G Mobile Applications},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 3rd International Multi-Disciplinary Conference: “Integrated Sciences and Technologies”, IMDC-IST 2023, 25-27 October 2023, Yola, Nigeria},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={IMDC-IST},
        year={2024},
        month={8},
        keywords={dual band ultra-wide antenna milli meter wave},
        doi={10.4108/eai.25-10-2023.2348724}
    }
    
  • Abubakar Salisu
    Atta Ullah
    Umar Musa
    Mobayode O. Akinsolu
    Ibrahim Gharbia
    Ahmad Aldelemy
    Mustapha A Modibbo
    Umar Usman
    A. S. Hussaini
    Year: 2024
    Dual Band Reconfigurable Antenna For Sub 6GHz and Millimeter Wave Bands For 5G Mobile Applications
    IMDC-IST
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.25-10-2023.2348724
Abubakar Salisu1,*, Atta Ullah1, Umar Musa2, Mobayode O. Akinsolu3, Ibrahim Gharbia1, Ahmad Aldelemy4, Mustapha A Modibbo5, Umar Usman6, A. S. Hussaini7
  • 1: Department of Electronics and Biomedical Engineering, University of Bradford, United Kingdom
  • 2: Department of Electrical Engineering, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria
  • 3: Faculty of Arts, Science and Technology, Wrexham Glyndwr University, LL11 2AW Wrexham, U.K.
  • 4: Faculty of Engineering and Informatics, University of Bradford, Bradford
  • 5: Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, MAU Yola, Nigeria
  • 6: Department of Electrical/Computer Technology, Gombe State Polytechnics Bajoga, Nigeria.
  • 7: University of Bradford, Bradford, BD7 1DP, UK,
*Contact email: a.salisu@bradford.ac.uk

Abstract

The proposed reconfigurable dual-band antenna switching between millimeter wave and sub-6 GHz bands is a necktie round shape patch design connected with a meandered radiating patch element at the top front with an H slot shape and a partial or truncated ground plane at the back to enhance the antenna's functionality and performance. The dual band antenna is designed using CST microwave studio on a substrate Rogers 3003 with a dimension of 27.8 mm x 14mm and thickness of 1.52 mm with a dielectric constant of 2.2 and a loss tangent of 0.0009 respectively. The PIN diode (SMP 1321-079LF) is placed between the two parts to resonate the antenna at 3.5 and 28 GHz by altering the switching state. During the ON state of the PIN diode, the antenna operates at both 3.5 GHz and 28 GHz; whereas, in the OFF state, it operates in the mm-wave band at 28 GHz, thereby eliminating the 3.5 GHz band. The proposed antenna has an ultra-wide bandwidth of 19.65 GHz covering almost all the milli meter wave bands of 23 GHz, 28 GHz, and 38 GHz (from 22.65 – 42.30 GHz) while the sub-6 GHz band has a bandwidth of 962 MHz (3.02 – 3.99 GHz) respectively. The return loss of the antenna is -31.33 dB and -49.72 dB at 3.5 GHz and 28 GHz respectively. However, this antenna is compact and combines two different frequency bands, the large frequency ratio between the millimeter wave band to the sub-6 GHz band is 8.