A Symmetrical Dual-Beam Bowtie Antenna With Gain Enhancement Using Metamaterial for 5G MIMO Applications

A symmetrical dual-beam end-fire bowtie antenna with gain enhancement is achieved by integrating three pairs of metamaterial (MTM) arrays for 5G MIMO applications. The first pair of MTM array with high refractive index (HRI) are deployed to form a wide beam antenna. The second pair of HRI MTM array...

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Main Authors: Haixin Jiang, Li-Ming Si, Weidong Hu, Xin Lv
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Li-Ming Si
Weidong Hu
Xin Lv
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Li-Ming Si
Weidong Hu
Xin Lv
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description A symmetrical dual-beam end-fire bowtie antenna with gain enhancement is achieved by integrating three pairs of metamaterial (MTM) arrays for 5G MIMO applications. The first pair of MTM array with high refractive index (HRI) are deployed to form a wide beam antenna. The second pair of HRI MTM array are arranged along the end-fire direction (<italic>x</italic>-direction) in front of the radiators in order to split the single wide beam into dual beam. Besides, the third pair of anisotropic MTM array with HRI along <italic>x</italic>-direction and near zero refractive along <italic>y</italic>-direction are incorporated in front of the second pair of MTM array to improve the gain performance. The proposed technique is verified by both the full-wave electromagnetic simulation and experiment, and the simulated and measured results agree very well with each other. Moreover, the measured results reveal that the main beam directions of the proposed antenna point to <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\pm 30^{\circ }$</tex-math></inline-formula> with respect to the end-fire direction (0<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^{\circ }$</tex-math></inline-formula>) over 24.25&#x2013;27.5 GHz, with a maximum gain of 7.4 dBi at 26&#x00A0;GHz and a 4.2 dB gain improvement compared to the wide beam antenna.
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spelling doaj-art-73a9b23d2a1d444c867190faca2966ff2025-08-20T02:44:40ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552019-01-011111910.1109/JPHOT.2019.28910038601193A Symmetrical Dual-Beam Bowtie Antenna With Gain Enhancement Using Metamaterial for 5G MIMO ApplicationsHaixin Jiang0Li-Ming Si1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8213-228XWeidong Hu2Xin Lv3Beijing Key Laboratory of Millimeter Wave and Terahertz Technology, School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, ChinaBeijing Key Laboratory of Millimeter Wave and Terahertz Technology, School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, ChinaBeijing Key Laboratory of Millimeter Wave and Terahertz Technology, School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, ChinaBeijing Key Laboratory of Millimeter Wave and Terahertz Technology, School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, ChinaA symmetrical dual-beam end-fire bowtie antenna with gain enhancement is achieved by integrating three pairs of metamaterial (MTM) arrays for 5G MIMO applications. The first pair of MTM array with high refractive index (HRI) are deployed to form a wide beam antenna. The second pair of HRI MTM array are arranged along the end-fire direction (<italic>x</italic>-direction) in front of the radiators in order to split the single wide beam into dual beam. Besides, the third pair of anisotropic MTM array with HRI along <italic>x</italic>-direction and near zero refractive along <italic>y</italic>-direction are incorporated in front of the second pair of MTM array to improve the gain performance. The proposed technique is verified by both the full-wave electromagnetic simulation and experiment, and the simulated and measured results agree very well with each other. Moreover, the measured results reveal that the main beam directions of the proposed antenna point to <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\pm 30^{\circ }$</tex-math></inline-formula> with respect to the end-fire direction (0<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^{\circ }$</tex-math></inline-formula>) over 24.25&#x2013;27.5 GHz, with a maximum gain of 7.4 dBi at 26&#x00A0;GHz and a 4.2 dB gain improvement compared to the wide beam antenna.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8601193/Metamaterialzero index metamaterialdual beamhigh refractive index5G MIMO communications.
spellingShingle Haixin Jiang
Li-Ming Si
Weidong Hu
Xin Lv
A Symmetrical Dual-Beam Bowtie Antenna With Gain Enhancement Using Metamaterial for 5G MIMO Applications
IEEE Photonics Journal
Metamaterial
zero index metamaterial
dual beam
high refractive index
5G MIMO communications.
title A Symmetrical Dual-Beam Bowtie Antenna With Gain Enhancement Using Metamaterial for 5G MIMO Applications
title_full A Symmetrical Dual-Beam Bowtie Antenna With Gain Enhancement Using Metamaterial for 5G MIMO Applications
title_fullStr A Symmetrical Dual-Beam Bowtie Antenna With Gain Enhancement Using Metamaterial for 5G MIMO Applications
title_full_unstemmed A Symmetrical Dual-Beam Bowtie Antenna With Gain Enhancement Using Metamaterial for 5G MIMO Applications
title_short A Symmetrical Dual-Beam Bowtie Antenna With Gain Enhancement Using Metamaterial for 5G MIMO Applications
title_sort symmetrical dual beam bowtie antenna with gain enhancement using metamaterial for 5g mimo applications
topic Metamaterial
zero index metamaterial
dual beam
high refractive index
5G MIMO communications.
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8601193/
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