Design of 28/38 GHz Dual-Band Triangular-Shaped Slot Microstrip Antenna Array for 5G Applications

Nowadays, evolving an advanced technology for the next generation of wireless cellular communication networks has put a great interest for researchers over the world. This aim is to accomplish the growing demand for advanced data rates. The fifth generation (5G) promises more advantages and benefits to the world. It will create an essential difference over 4G. The design of 5G antenna providing broad bandwidth is very important to ensure the performance of 5G networks. In this paper, microstrip antennas array of single, two, four and six elements dual-band (28/38GHz) for 5G applications are discussed. The proposed antennas are printed on 1.575 mm-thick Rogers Duroid 5880 substrate with dielectric constant of ε
_r
= 2.2 and loss tangent (tan δ) of 0.0009. They consist of a triangular shaped radiating patch fed by a 50 Ω microstrip line. The antenna bandwidth is furthered by etching the triangular shaped slot on the ground plane. The highest gain is provided by the antenna with six elements array for both frequencies. The maximum gain of 7.47 dBi with return loss of -30.70 dB at 28 GHz and 12.1 dBi with return loss of -34.5 dB at 38 GHz are obtained.