LOW SIDELOBE AND WIDEBAND CHARACTERISTICS OF DENSITY TAPERED ARRAYS FOR 5G MOBILE SYSTEMS
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https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v78.8897Keywords:
5G mobile, millimeter wave, mobile base station antenna, density tapered arrayAbstract
Conventional mobile base station antennas are composed of equally spaced linear array antennas. In order to achieve low side lobe characteristics, excitation coefficients for array elements are determined by a feeding network. Because of complexity of the feeding network, applicable frequency range is limited. In 5G mobile system, multi frequency band operation is requested. For achieving low sidelobe and wide frequency characteristics, a density tapered array configuration is promising. Because of uniform excitation coefficients, feed network has no frequency dependence and wide frequency range application is expected. In this paper, abilities and design method of low sidelobe characteristics are investigated. By density tapering, sidelobe levels are reduced from -13dB to -16dB. As for wide band characteristics, low sidelobe characteristics are maintained during 28GHz to 56GHz operations. Usefulness of a density tapered array is numerically clarified.
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