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Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Volume 2018, Article ID 3249352, 2 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/3249352

Editorial
Antennas and Circuits for 5G Mobile Communications

Lei Ge ,1 Jianpeng Wang,2 Mingjian Li,3 Ting-Yen Shih,4 and Shichang Chen5
1
College of Electronic Science and Technology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
2
Ministerial Key Laboratory of JGMT, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
3
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA
4
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Idaho, Moscow, USA
5
Key Laboratory of RF Circuits and Systems of the Ministry of Education of China, Microelectronic CAD Center,
Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China

Correspondence should be addressed to Lei Ge; leige@szu.edu.cn

Received 15 May 2018; Accepted 15 May 2018; Published 7 June 2018

Copyright © 2018 Lei Ge et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which
permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

With the blooming of wireless technologies for communi-
cations, the fifth-generation (5G) mobile communications
have become one of the hottest topics in recent years. For
any wireless devices and systems, antennas, filters, amplifiers,
mixers, and so on are crucial components for the RF front-
end. Thus the demand for different kinds of advanced and
high-performance antennas and circuits is increasing expo-
nentially. However, most conventional designs have difficulty
to satisfy those stringent requirements of the 5G mobile
communications on bandwidth, radiation pattern, size, and
cost. High-performance antennas and circuits for 5G mobile
applications are therefore very attractive for researchers from
both academic and industrial areas. This special issue solicits
high-quality contributions regarding the design of microwave
and millimeter-wave antennas and circuits for the upcoming
communication systems.
In this special issue, we have 5 papers investigating
antennas for 5G mobile communications. Specifically, in
“Reconfigurable Magneto-Electric Dipole Antennas for Base
Stations in Modern Wireless Communication Systems”, the
authors reviewed several reconfigurable directional anten-
nas for base station applications. The results showed that
magneto-electric dipole antennas provide wide bands, high
gains, and well-controlled radiation patterns and are suitable
to be employed in reconfigurable base station antennas.
In “Magnetoelectric Dipole Antenna with Dual Polariza-
tion and High Isolation”, the authors aimed at modeling and
analyzing a novel dual-polarized antenna element which was
suitable to be applied in the further 5G mobile base stations.
The work in the paper titled “Single-Layer, Dual-Port,
Dual-Band, and Orthogonal-Circularly Polarized Microstrip
Antenna Array with Low Frequency Ratio” proposed a
method to realize an orthogonal-circularly polarized antenna
array with dual bands.
The paper with the title of “A Low VSWR and High
Efficiency Waveguide Feed Antenna Array” introduced a
high-efficiency slot antenna array by using waveguide feed.
The radiation efficiency could achieve as high as larger than
80%.
The paper “Low Profile Flexible UHF RFID Tag Design
for Wristbands Applications” presented a low profile RFID
tag antenna for healthcare applications. The proposed slotted
design can easily allow the tag’s input impedance to be
tuned to the complex impedance of typical UHF RFID
chips.
In this special issue, we have 4 papers investigating passive
and active radio-frequency (RF) circuits for 5G communi-
cations. Specifically, in “A Reactance Compensated Three-
Device Doherty Power Amplifier for Bandwidth and Back-
Off Range Extension”, the authors proposed a new broadband
Doherty power amplifier topology with extended back-off
range. Underlying bandwidth extension mechanism of the
proposed configuration was comprehensively analyzed.
In the paper titled “A Doherty Power Amplifier with
Large Back-Off Power Range Using Integrated Enhancing
Reactance”, a symmetric Doherty power amplifier based on
integrated enhancing reactance (IER) was proposed for large
back-off applications.
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The work in “A Compact Differential-Mode Wide Stop-

band Bandpass Filter with Good and Wideband Common-
Mode Suppression” aimed at presenting a new coupling
topology to realize a differential-mode bandpass filter by
integrating a pair of half-wavelength microstrip transmission
lines and two multimode resonators.
In the paper with the title of “A Wide Stopband Balun
Bandpass Filter with Its Application to Balanced Quasi-Yagi
Antenna”, the authors utilize the out-of-phase open-ended
microstrip line and the resonant characteristics of the triple-
mode resonators to realize a new microstrip balun bandpass
filter with a wide stopband.
In this special issue, 2 papers aim at RF systems for
5G mobile communications. In “Uplink Multiuser MIMO-
OFDM System in the Presence of Phase Noises, Power Imbal-
ance, and Correlation”, the effects of phase noises (PNs),
power imbalances, and correlations on multiuser orthogo-
nal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) multiple-input
multiple-output (MIMO) systems were studied. And the
analytical results were verified by simulations.
The paper “CORDIC-Based Multi-Gb/s Digital Out-
phasing Modulator for Highly Efficient Millimeter-Wave
Transmitters” described a high-speed CORDIC-based digital
outphasing modulator. The complete outphasing modulator
was fully custom designed in 40 nm CMOS, which could
be integrated in a millimeter-wave outphasing transmitter to
enhance the system average efficiency. Tested with 10.56 Gb/s
64-QAM, the presented work achieved an EVM of 3.2% and
fulfilled the IEEE 802.11ad spectral mask requirements.
Two other papers of this special issue investigate over-the-
air (OTA) test of MIMO technology and frequency selective
surfaces for 5G applications, respectively. Specifically, the
paper “Impact of Probe Configurations on Maximum of Test
Volume Size in 3D MIMO OTA Testing” presented a method
to determine the maximum of test volume size (MTVS) and
investigated the impact of probe configurations on MTVS in
order to obtain larger MTVS in the OTA testing.
In the paper “Design of a Novel Miniaturized Frequency
Selective Surface Based on 2.5-Dimensional Jerusalem Cross
for 5G Applications”, a compact frequency selective surface
(FSS) for the application to 5G antenna radomes was pro-
posed based on 2.5-dimensional Jerusalem cross.
Lei Ge
Jianpeng Wang
Mingjian Li
Ting-Yen Shih
Shichang Chen
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