Design of a compact Dual bands patch antenna
for 5G Applications
Yassine JANDI Fatima GHARNATI
Faculty of sciences Semlalia Faculty of sciences Semlalia
Cadi Ayyad University Cadi Ayyad University
Marrakesh, Morocco Marrakesh, Morocco
yassinejandi@gmail.com Gharnati@uca.ma
Abstract— This this paper presents the design of a compact
size dual bands patch antenna for the next generation5G devices.
The proposed compact size antenna has a compact structure of
19 × 19 × 0.787mm3 including the ground plane.The proposed
antenna operates at 10.15 GHz and 28 GHz which are two of
the candidate frequencies for the 5G mobile communications. the
proposed design provides a gain of 5.51 dB at 10.15 GHz and
8.03 dB at 28 GHz and a directional the radiation pattern. The
antenna was designed on Rogers5880 substrate with a thickness
of 0.787mm. In this paper geometry of the antenna and various
parameters such as return loss plot, gain plot, radiation pattern
plot and VSWR plot are presented and discussed.
Index Terms—Gain,5G Applications,Patch an-
tenna,Multibands, directivity
I. I NTRODUCTION
Currently there is a great interest in higher data rates
using wireless communication. Mobile wireless technology
experiences various generation from 0G to 4G technology. The
current generation of wireless communication(4G) is unable
to fulfill the consumer’s requirements. The above generation
incapable to solve the problems of, poor coverage, crowded
channel, poor quality, dropped connection and flexibility [1].to
fulfill these tradeoff, investigation and development of 5G
of wireless communication have been started, and the stan-
dardization activity is going to be finalized in 2017, and
it’s expected commercialized in 2020. The major advantages
of the new release (5G) is to provide a data rates of at
least one gigabit per second for tens of thousands of users
simultaneously, large bandwidth, improved security features,
provides higher resolution for cell and increase the energy
efficiency.5G will provide support for interactive multimedia
such as, virtual reality, autonomous driving ([3]-[4]). There
is a lot of candidate frequencies for 5G, frequencies that are
below 6 Ghz and within 100 Ghz . whatever the improvement
made by the new release to mobile communication, the goal
for every wireless communication system is data collection,
for this the antenna should be carefully designed, and rightly
so the antenna plays a key role and can affect the hole
system performances in term of beam width, bandwidth and
efficiency. A mobile antenna must be small, light in weigh and
fit into amounted allotted space in the design’s devices, one
antenna type meet these conditions and can fulfill the wireless
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Oulad said ahmed
Royal air school
Cadi Ayyad University
Marrakesh, Morocco
ouladsaid.ahmed@gmail.com
communication system requirement is the patch antenna, also
this type of antenna has a lot of merits such us low profile,
planar structure, multiband properties, low cost, moderate
to high gain, and easy to fabricate[5].the patch antenna is
the most used elements especially with the development of
various multiband technique and the enhancement technique
that allows us to ameliorate the gain and bandwidth. In this
work present an antenna working at frequencies 10 Ghz and
28 Ghz two of the most candidates frequencies for the 5G, the
proposed dual band antenna is designed using CST software,
which based on finite integration method, the some antenna
have been redesigned using HFSS software which based, on
finite element, integral equation, asymptotic and advanced
hybrid methods, to compare both methods [6] .This paper
is organized as follows. section II summarizes a literature
review, Section III describes the antenna design and its initial
calculation. Results and discussion is presented in Section IV
and finally the conclusion in Section V. .
II. LITERATURE REVIEW
The antenna design is the most important factors to be con-
sidered, in order to fully utilize the 5G technology. However,
a few design issues can affect an antennas performance. Aside
from that, in fabrication process, mechanical inaccuracies and
errors can affect the antenna performance [8]. 28 Ghz bands
which is within range of 21, 65 GHz to 29, 5 GHz is allocated
for the applications in UWB radar and communication systems
[10].This frequency band and 10GHz band also can be used
for future fifth generation (5G). Several works have been
reported in these bands. For example, Chong Ming Sam and
al presented a patch antenna operating at 11 GHz. with Rogers
RT 5880 as a substrate of size22 × 19mm2 and 0, 6 mm
thickness used to achieve a gain of 6, 35 dB and a directivity of
6, 34 dB [11], Shivangi Verma and al presented a patch slotted
antenna with F R4 substrate of size 20 × 20 × 1, 6mm3 size to
provide a gain of 4, 46 dB at 10, 15 GHz [12], another work
proposed by Mohamed Mamdouh M. Ali , and Abdel-Razik
Sebak. where they propose a small antenna with coplanar
feeding. Rogers RT5880 substrates of 0, 254mm thickness,
and a size of 5 × 5mm2 , used to achieve a gain of 6, 6 dB
at 28 GHz[13].It is observed that those antenna structures are
complex in fabrication process, besides having low radiation
efficiencies, and low gain. below a summarized table of the
interested works on this kind of antenna at the related bands.
TABLE I: Comparison of size and bandwidth of the proposed
antenna with other references.

Reference Size (mm2 ) Freq range Gain Direct db

[11] 22 × 19 11-11.3 6.35 6.34
[12] 20 × 20 9.95-10.35 4.46 *
[13] 5×5 27.5-28.3,37.5-37.4 6.6,5.6 *
Proposed 19 × 19 9.99-10.26,27.75-28.77 7.71,7.71.03 7.77,10.03

This paper proposes a Dual-band patch microstrip antenna Fig. 1: Geometry of the of the proposed patch antenna
working at 10 GHz and 28 GHz frequencies with compact
size, simple shape, providing a good performance.
Where L and W correspond to actual length and width, Lef f
III. A NTENNA DESIGN is the effective length, ref f is the effective dielectric constant
The substrate selection is the first practical step in the and ∆L is the incremental length of the patch respectively.
designing of a patch antenna. Substrate parameters like thick- geometry of the proposed antenna is shown in figure 1.
ness and dielectric constant greatly influence the impedance the parameters calculated with the transmission-line was
bandwidth of the antenna. To increase bandwidth, increase modified to get the two desired frequencies (10 GHz and 28
the substrate height and/or decrease the substrate permittivity GHz).
(this will also affect resonant frequency and the impedance TABLE III: Antenna design parameters
matching).and Antennas on very thin substrates have high
copper-losses, while thicker and higher permittivity substrates Proposed Antenna Dimensions (Unit mm)
may lead to performance degradation due to surface waves. In W L Lf Wf Ws Ls Wg = Lg
our design we opted to use the Roger5880 for his numerous 9 9 4.75 0.7 0.5 3.99 19
advantages, and the dimensions of our substrate are described
in table II. And A square patch of copper etched to get the
desired frequencies is placed on top of the aforementioned IV. S IMULATION RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
substrate layer. The patch is fed using 50 − Ω microstrip line
placed on the bottom centered edge of the square patch The The simulations of proposed antenna are performed using
ground plane is placed on the back of the substrate layer. Computer Simulation Technology (CST) Microwave Studio
(CST MS 2015). the antenna parameters which is of significant
TABLE II: RT/Rogers5880 substrate parameters importance in antenna is the reflection coefficient or S1 1,
which define the bandwidth and the impedance matching
Rogers RT5880(lossy) Parameters values characteristic. The first simulation of the antenna on CST
Dielectric constant (r ) 2.2 resulted in a bandwidth of around 278 Mhz and S1 1 of −26.9
Substrate thickness 0.708 mm
Loss tangent (δ) 0.0009 dB and a bandwidth of 1 Ghz and S1 1 of −24 dB. the figure
Dimensions (mm2 ) 19 × 19 2 shows the simulation results using both software (CST and
HFSS).
The resonant frequency (fr ) for the rectangular patch was
selected to be 10 Ghz. The initial calculation of the patch
antenna was done using the well-known transmission-line
model [7], all the respective formulas and calculated MPA
dimensions are given below:

L = Lef f − 2∆L (1)

where
c
Lef f = √ (2)
2f ref f
r + 1 r − 1 1
ref f = + [ q ] (3)
2 2 2f 1 + 12 h w
Fig. 2: The S11 curves of the designed antenna using
h
[ref f + 0.3][ w + 0.264] HFSS(integral technique) and CST microwave studio (FDTD
∆L = 0.412 h
(4)
[ref f − 0.258][ w + 0.8] technique)
And √
c 2 The result in Figure 2 suggest that the two technique are
W = √ (5) in good agreement except the frequency 28 GHz where there
2f r + 1
is a little difference in the bandwidth.the achieved bandwidth
with FDTD technique is betters than integral technique, this
bandwidth is pretty good for an antenna that is subject to be
used for 5G applications. Antenna gain and directivity are two
others important parameters which are topically considered to
analyze antenna behavior the desired frequencies. The gain and
the directivity of the proposed antenna , when simulated on
CST microwave studio is shown in figures 3 ,4and 6 below. It (a) 3D radiation pattern of (b) 3D radiation patern of
can be seen from figures 4and 6 that the achieved gains by CST the proposed antenna at the the proposed antenna at the
frequency 10.1 GHz using frequency 28.1 GHz using
is 5, 51 dB 8, 03 dB a the frequencies 10, 1 GHz 28, 1 GHz HFSS HFSS
respectively, where the achieved gains by HFSS for the same
frequencies is 7, 71 dB and 7, 54 dB respectively, this is due to Fig. 5: Gain of the designed antenna at the frequency 10.1 and
the fact that HFSS assumes a infinite ground plane where CST 28.1 GHz using HFSS
doesnt, and from the 6 we can see that the proposed antenna
has higher directivity at both frequencies which is compatible
with 5G generation technique as beam-forming.

(a) Directivity pattern of the (b) Directivity patern of the

proposed antenna at the fre- proposed antenna at the fre-
quency 10.1 GHz quency 28.1 GHz
(a) 3D radiation pattern of (b) 2D radiation patern of
the proposed antenna at the the proposed antenna at the Fig. 6: Directivity pattern of the designed antenna at the
frequency 10.1 GHz using frequency 10.1 GHz using frequency 10.1 GHz (a) and frequency 28.1 (b)
cst studio cst studio
Fig. 3: Gain of the designed antenna at the frequency 10.1 TABLE IV: Summarized simulation Results
GHz
Simulator Freq S11 VSWR Gain Direct effic%
CST 10.1 -27.5 1.085 5.51 7.75 60
28.1 -24.5 1.28 8.03 7.38 58
HFSS 10.1 -14.5 1.1 7.71 7.77 65
28.1 -34.5 1.28 7.54 7.4 62

28 GHz the realized Gain is 21 % higher compared to [13],

which make it suitable for the 5 th generation application.

(b) 2D radiation patern of

(a) 3D radiation pattern of the proposed antenna at the
the proposed antenna at the frequency 28.1 GHz using
frequency 28.1 GHz cst studio
Fig. 4: Gain of the designed antenna at the frequency 28.1
GHz using cst studio
(a) Directivity pattern of the (b) Directivity patern of the
proposed antenna at the fre- proposed antenna at the fre-
The gain of the proposed antenna is 24 % higher compared quency 10.1 GHz quency 28.1 GHz
to [12] and a reduced size of 13% compared to [11] and
9% compared to [12],and it provide also a directivity of 22% Fig. 7: Directivity pattern of the designed antenna at the
higher compared to [11] at the 10 GHz band.at the frequency frequency 10.1 GHz (a) and frequency 28.1 (b)
 V. C ONCLUSION
This papers proposed a Dual-band patch antenna for 5G
application. the proposed antenna consist of 19 × 19mm2
etched patch with a feeding line on a substrate of rogers
RT 5880.the simulate results in a different software with
different analysis techniques are in good agreement, and the
obtained gains are 7.71dB at 10.1 Ghz and 8.03 at 28.1
Ghz and a good directivity in both frequencies, the proposed
antenna potentially serves as a good option for 5th Generation
Wireless Systems (5G) which requires a high gain and low
profile topology. In future, we will try to fabricate the proposed
antenna, and compare the radiation pattern and reflection
coefficient of simulated and measured results.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This works was supported by the national center of scien-
tific research,Rabat, Morocco and the Cadi Ayyad university,
Marrakesh, Morocco .

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