A Dual-Polarized Wideband Planar Multiport Mobile Antenna

Additional antennas are needed in smart phones to support 5G bands. The metal rim, which is the most attractive position for antennas, is already fully occupied by antennas supporting legacy bands. Therefore, there is a growing interest in new, more challenging antenna locations, such as the back cover of the phone. In this paper, we introduce a dual-polarized frequency reconfigurable wideband planar multiport antenna to the back cover of a mobile phone. The antenna has a height of only 0.5 mm. The simulations show that the introduced antenna achieves better than −5.8 dB efficiency from 3.3 GHz to 4.2 GHz.