Design and Simulation of a Single Element High Gain Microstrip Patch Antenna for 5G Wireless Communication

Abstract

The use of micro-strip antennas in wireless communication is very popular due to their low cost, low profile and ease of fabrication. But poor performances like narrow bandwidth, low gain etc. confines their application. As the upcoming 5 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">th</sup> generation (5G) requires high gain antenna, the main concern of this research is to design a high gain micro-strip patch antenna using air substrate. The antenna is designed and simulated using Zeland's IE3D and operates at 28 GHz band. The gain, bandwidth, return loss and efficiency of the single element antenna is 9.82 dBi, 1.29 GHz, 42 dB and almost 100% respectively.