On the Performance of a Photonic Reconfigurable Electromagnetic Band Gap Antenna Array for 5G Applications
- Resource Type
- Periodical
- Authors
- Elwi, T.A.; Taher, F.; Virdee, B.S.; Alibakhshikenari, M.; Zuazola, I.J.G.; Krasniqi, A.; Kamel, A.S.; Tokan, N.T.; Khan, S.; Parchin, N.O.; Livreri, P.; Dayoub, I.; Pau, G.; Aissa, S.; Limiti, E.; Sree, M.F.A.
- Source
- IEEE Access Access, IEEE. 12:60849-60862 2024
- Subject
- Aerospace
Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Engineering Profession
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
General Topics for Engineers
Geoscience
Nuclear Engineering
Photonics and Electrooptics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Transportation
Periodic structures
Metamaterials
Antenna arrays
MIMO communication
Integrated circuit modeling
Antennas
Analytical models
Electromagnetics
5G mobile communication
Specific absorption rate
Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG)
multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)
5G system
antenna arrays
specific absorption rate (SAR)
photosensitive light dependent resistor (LDR)
- Language
- ISSN
- 2169-3536
In this paper, a reconfigurable Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna array is presented for 5G portable devices. The proposed array consists of four radiating elements and an Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) structure. Planar monopole radiating elements are employed in the array with Coplanar Waveguide Ports (CWPs). Each CWP is grounded on one side to a reflecting L-shaped structure that has an effect of improving the antenna’s directivity. It is shown that by inductively connecting Minkowski fractal structure of $1^{st}$ order to the radiating element, the impedance matching is improved that results in enhancement in the array’s bandwidth performance. The EBG structure is used to provide the isolation between antenna elements in the MIMO array. The fractal structure is connected to the L-shaped reflector through four photosensitive light dependent resistor (LDR) switches. The effect of various LDR switching configurations on the performance of the antenna is investigated. The proposed array provides a novel performance in terms of S-parameters with enhancements in the radiation properties. Such enhancements