Design Approach for Modular Millimeter Wave Beamforming Antenna Arrays for 5G Pico-Cells

authored by: Steffen Seewald, Dirk Michael Manteuffel
Abstract: In this paper, a concept for a modular 5G beam-forming antenna array is introduced. The array consists of small tiles of planar 2x2 antenna sub-arrays. Each tile contains four patch antennas, a beamformer integrated circuit (BF-IC) and all other components needed to operate the BF-IC in a multilayer package. To build larger beamforming antenna arrays multiple tiles can be combined and placed on a control board. This modular concept leads to highly scalable solutions needed e.g. for various upcoming 5G pico-cell base stations.
Organisation(s): Institute of Microwave and Wireless Systems
Type: Conference contribution
Pages: 174-177
No. of pages: 4
Publication date: 09.2019
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Computer Networks and Communications, Instrumentation
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC.2019.8870414 (Access: Closed)
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