The transition towards the fifth generation(5G)of communication systems has been fueled by the need for compact,high-speed and wide-bandwidth systems.These advancements necessitate the development of novel and highly ...The transition towards the fifth generation(5G)of communication systems has been fueled by the need for compact,high-speed and wide-bandwidth systems.These advancements necessitate the development of novel and highly efficient antenna designs characterized by the compact size.In this paper,a novel antenna design with a hexagonal-shaped resonating element and two U-shaped open-ended stubs is presented.Millimeter-wave(mmWave)frequency range suffers from attenuation due to atmosphere and path loss because of higher frequencies.To address these issues,the deployment of a high-gain antenna is imperative.This design is created through an evolutionary process to work best in the mmWave frequency range with a high gain.A thin Rogers RT5880 substrate with a thickness of 0.254 mm,a dielectric constant of 2.3 and a loss tangent of 0.0009 supports the copper-based radiating element.A partial ground plane with a square slot and trimmed corners at the bottom enhances the antenna’s bandwidth.The single-element antenna exhibits a wide bandwidth of nearly 6 GHz and a gain of 4.58 dBi.By employing the proposed antenna array,the antenna gain is significantly enhanced to 14.90 dBi while maintaining an ultra-compact size of 24 mm×46 mm at the resonant frequency of 31 GHz.The antenna demonstrates a wider impedance bandwidth of 15.73%(28-34 GHz)and an efficiency of 94%.The proposed design works well for 5G communication and satellite communication,because it has a simple planar structure and focused dual-beam radiation patterns from a simple feeding network.展开更多
A novel radio-over-fiber(ROF) scheme to simultaneously generate and transmit the 3rd generation telecommunication(3G) and millimeter-wave(MMW) signals by using a single dual-electrode Mach-Zehnder modulator(MZM) is pr...A novel radio-over-fiber(ROF) scheme to simultaneously generate and transmit the 3rd generation telecommunication(3G) and millimeter-wave(MMW) signals by using a single dual-electrode Mach-Zehnder modulator(MZM) is proposed.There is no apparent nonlinearity induced by the ROF system.By employing this analog ROF signal transmission technique,highly transparent fiber-wireless convergence networks can be realized,which are ideal for multi-standard wireless system operation.展开更多
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.12272092)。
文摘The transition towards the fifth generation(5G)of communication systems has been fueled by the need for compact,high-speed and wide-bandwidth systems.These advancements necessitate the development of novel and highly efficient antenna designs characterized by the compact size.In this paper,a novel antenna design with a hexagonal-shaped resonating element and two U-shaped open-ended stubs is presented.Millimeter-wave(mmWave)frequency range suffers from attenuation due to atmosphere and path loss because of higher frequencies.To address these issues,the deployment of a high-gain antenna is imperative.This design is created through an evolutionary process to work best in the mmWave frequency range with a high gain.A thin Rogers RT5880 substrate with a thickness of 0.254 mm,a dielectric constant of 2.3 and a loss tangent of 0.0009 supports the copper-based radiating element.A partial ground plane with a square slot and trimmed corners at the bottom enhances the antenna’s bandwidth.The single-element antenna exhibits a wide bandwidth of nearly 6 GHz and a gain of 4.58 dBi.By employing the proposed antenna array,the antenna gain is significantly enhanced to 14.90 dBi while maintaining an ultra-compact size of 24 mm×46 mm at the resonant frequency of 31 GHz.The antenna demonstrates a wider impedance bandwidth of 15.73%(28-34 GHz)and an efficiency of 94%.The proposed design works well for 5G communication and satellite communication,because it has a simple planar structure and focused dual-beam radiation patterns from a simple feeding network.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61371061)the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.LY12F01010 and LQ13F010007)the Open Fund of the Information and Communication Engineering of Top Key Discipline of Zhejiang Province
文摘A novel radio-over-fiber(ROF) scheme to simultaneously generate and transmit the 3rd generation telecommunication(3G) and millimeter-wave(MMW) signals by using a single dual-electrode Mach-Zehnder modulator(MZM) is proposed.There is no apparent nonlinearity induced by the ROF system.By employing this analog ROF signal transmission technique,highly transparent fiber-wireless convergence networks can be realized,which are ideal for multi-standard wireless system operation.
