Validation of Millimeter-Wave Plane Wave Generator for 5G Measurements

The Plane Wave Generator (PWG) concept has recently been presented for millimeter wave applications [1]–[2]. The PWG has attracted interest, also because of its unique application in direct testing of 5G/6G enabled devices while in use by life people or mounted on suitable phantoms. This test feature is important to evaluate the shadowing effect by the user and the effectiveness of distributed array system on devices to overcome the shadowing. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility and achievable measurement accuracy in such scenarios. Using the measured performance of the PWG reported in [1]–[2], the measurement scenario is emulated accurately and compared to the reference case.