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)