High-Conductivity MXene Film-Based Millimeter Wave Antenna for 5G Applications

oleh: Jiannan Guo, Yunfa Si, Rongguo Song, Haoran Zu, Yitong Xin, Dong Ye, Ming Xu, Bao-Wen Li, Daping He

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: MDPI AG 2023-07-01

Deskripsi

Millimeter wave antennas have the advantage of high directivity, miniaturization, high resolution and data transfer speed, wide bandwidth, and lower latency. In this work, a millimeter wave planar array antenna (PAA) with the characteristics of wideband and low sidelobes, which consists of eight identical linear array antenna (LAA) based on Ti<sub>3</sub>C<sub>2</sub> MXene, is designed and fabricated. It is the first time that MXene antennas are proposed for a 5G millimeter wave antenna application. MXene PAA has a high realized gain of 22.22 dBi and a −10 dB impedance bandwidth of measurement covering the range from 24 GHz to 28 GHz, including the 5G FR2—n258 frequency band. With Chebyshev current distribution, the MXene PAA has a half-power beam width of 10.2° and 10.8° in the xoz-plane and yoz-plane radiation patterns with the sidelobes levels below −20 dB, respectively. Therefore, MXene PAA is suitable for 5G mobile communication applications.