5G camouflage antenna for pico-cell base stations

Alieldin, Ahmed, Huang, Yi ORCID: 0000-0001-7774-1024, Stanley, Manoj and Xu, Qian (2020) 5G camouflage antenna for pico-cell base stations. IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, 14 (14). pp. 1696-1699.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/iet-map.2019.0663

Abstract

A camouflage dual-polarised antenna for 5G pico-cell (PC) base stations is proposed in this study. The antenna offers good coverage for the 5G sub-6 GHz frequency band (3.3-3.8 GHz) with a reflection coefficient better than −15 dB and a port-to-port coupling less than −23 dB. The proposed antenna consists of two layers (a radiating layer and a feeding layer) separated by an air gap. The radiating layer uses a transparent conducting film (indium tin oxide) to form two patches (a radiating patch and a parasitic patch) printed on the opposite sides of a glass laminate. The radiating layer has visual transparency of 77%, which makes it possible to be integrated with the glass cover of the head of a street lamp while the feeding layer is embedded inside the head for camouflage. A 2 × 2 antenna array is formed to achieve a realised gain of 13.2 dBi and a 3-dB solid angle of 33° × 33°. Therefore, the proposed design is very suitable to be employed as a camouflage 5G PC base station.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	antenna radiation patterns, antenna feeds, microstrip antenna arrays, picocellular radio, 5G mobile communication, laminates, glass, indium compounds, 5G sub-6 GHz frequency band, port-to-port coupling, radiating layer, feeding layer, transparent conducting film, indium tin oxide, radiating patch, parasitic patch, 2 x 2 antenna array, camouflage 5G PC base station, picocell base stations, camouflage dual-polarised antenna, 5G camouflage antenna, reflection coefficient, glass laminate, street lamp, frequency 3, 3 GHz to 3, 8 GHz
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	15 Dec 2020 10:02
Last Modified:	03 Mar 2023 11:00
DOI:	10.1049/iet-map.2019.0663
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3110103