3rd International Conference and Workshops on Recent Advances and Innovations in Engineering, 22-25 November 2018

(IEEE Conference Record # 43534)

A Compact Microstrip Patch Antenna at 28 GHz for

5G wireless Applications
Ravi Kumar Goyal Uma Shankar Modani
Electronics and Communication Department Electronics and Communication Department
Govt. Engineering College Ajmer Govt. Engineering College Ajmer
Ajmer, India Ajmer, India
ravigoyal14@gmail.com usmodani73@rediffmail.com

Abstract— A compact planar inset-fed microstrip antenna Ws=1.24,LS=1.5,p=0.75,g=0.7 and d=1mm.The dimension
applicable for 5G Wireless system at millimeter wave are optimized in such a way to resonate the antenna at 28
frequency (28 GHz) is described. The antenna parameters are GHz. The thickness of RogerRT5880 is 0.4 mm. The
optimized using the CST Microwave Studio. Simulated return dimensions are shown in table 1.
loss plot, far-field radiation pattern and polar plot gain is
achieved at 28 GHz frequency. The simulation result met the
3GPP Release-15 operating in 28 GHz frequency band for 5G
Wireless applications. The simulated results shows a return
loss of -17.4dB, gain of antenna is 6.72 dB and the voltage
standing wave ratio VSWR < 2 at 28 GHz indicating that the
antenna has minimum reflection at this frequency.

Keywords—patch antenna, inset-fed microstrip antenna and

5G wireless communication.

I. INTRODUCTION
5G wireless communication is based on 3GPP release
14 to release 17 which will operates in millimetre wave
band (30GHz to 300 GHz).The main Challenges at these
frequencies is high path-loss and propagation losses so use
of very high directive phase-array antennas with Beam
forming technique is required to reach the destination[1].
One of the key mechanisms in millimetre wave Fig.1. Top view of designed antenna
communication is beam training. Beam training is a process
of direction finding between two devices that want to TABLE I. ANTENNA PARAMETERS
communicate and this direction is used to beam formed Parameters Values (mm)
towards other device to overcome the attenuation at W 5.5
millimetre wave frequency. This frequency band is L 4.5
important because only at this frequency band sufficient Wp 3.96
Lp 2.5
bandwidth is available to allow very high data rate Ws 1.24
communication[2]. The licensing will also not be needed Ls 1.25
because of the limited potential for interference at these g 0.68
frequencies[3]. p 0.5
d 0.68
There is advancement in mobile phone technology in
every 10 years. It had been started from 1G which was III. SIMULATION AND RESULTS
launched in 1980 and now 4G is available in the market for
commercial use. the main difference between the generation
of mobile phone technology is the data rate which is
increasing day by day from Kbps to Mbps and now Gbps in
5G.4G has the limitation of limited bandwidth and speed
.To have 5G the antenna must have higher gain and more
bandwidth to overcome the path-loss.5G will provides faster
data-rate at a shorter distance.

II. ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

The geometry of the microstrip patch antenna at center
frequency of 28GHz is shown in Fig. 1. The patch is inset-
fed by a 50Ω microstrip line. The geometry parameters of Fig. 2. Simulated Return Loss Plot (magnitude in dB)
antenna are (inmm):W=5.90,L=4.75,Wp=4.74, Lp=3.45,

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Fig. 3. Simulated VSWR Plot for antenna:
Fig.4.Simulated surface current distribution
Fig.5.Simulated Far-field pattern
Fig.6. Simulated polar plot
Figure 2 represent the reflection coefficient S11 at 28 GHz
with the bandwidth of 1.1 GHz and return loss of -18.25dB.
The simulated VSWR plot, surface current distribution
pattern, far field pattern and polar pattern are shown in Fig.
(3), Fig. (4), Fig. (5) and Fig.(6) respectively. The gain of
antenna is 6.83 dB.
CONCLUTION
A compact inset-fed microstrip patch antenna has been
designed for 5G systems. The refection coefficient has been
found below −10dB from 27.5 GHz to 28.6 GHz.The
reduced dimensions by the large frequencies can lead to
challenge to implement the prototype. The dielectric loss is
increased with the increase in frequency therefore it
becomes quite difficult to select the dielectric materials for
high frequency applications. The commercial substrate used
for antenna fabrication do not indicate the value of dielectric
constant beyond 10 GHz but the value of dielectric constant
partly determines the dimensions of basic patch. By
changing the width of the feed line the impedance is
changed so the resonant frequency can be changed.
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