High gain antipodal tapered slot antenna With sine-shaped corrugation and fermi profile substrate slotted cut-out for MMW 5G

Abstract

A high gain, high-efficiency antipodal tapered slot antenna with sine-shaped corrugation and a Fermi profile substrate cut-out has been developed for 5G millimeter wave (MMW) communications. A parametric study of a new substrate cutout with Fermi profile is demonstrated to reduce the sidelobe level at the E-plane and H-plane as well as to increase antenna efficiency by an average of 88% over a band of 20-40 GHz. A low-cost printed circuit board (PCB) is processed simply with a CNC Milling machine to fabricate the proposed antenna with Fermi profile substrate cut-out. The measured reflection coefficient is found to be less than -14 dB over a frequency range of 20-40 GHz. Furthermore, the measured gain of the proposed antenna is 17 dB at 30 GHz and the measured radiation pattern and gain is almost constant within the wide bandwidth from 30-40 GHz. Therefore, this antenna is proposed for use in an H-plane array structure such as for point-to-point communication systems, a switched-beam system.