Design and Simulation of a High Performance 5G mm-Wave MIMO Antenna Array for Mobile Applications

Abstract

This paper presents the design and simulation of an efficient multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna array for 5G millimeter-wave (mm-wave) mobile applications. With a dielectric constant of 2.2 and a loss tangent of 0.0009, the substrate employed is a Rogers RT5880 that is 0.254 mm thick. The 37 GHz frequency spectrum, reserved for millimeter-wave mobile applications for 5G, is covered by the proposed MIMO antenna arrays. The single antenna element has a gain of 6.44 dBi, which is increased to 7.89 dBi with a two-element array configuration and 10.88 dBi with a four-element array configuration. The proposed MIMO antenna array performance metrics—including reflection coefficient, VSWR, radiation efficiency, and gain—are seen and discovered to be below the accepted threshold. In the desired operating frequency band, it is noticed that more than 85% of the proposed MIMO antenna array's radiation efficiency is achieved. According to simulation findings, the proposed design may be potentially feasible for mobile applications using millimeter waves in the 5G network.