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Antennas and Circuits for 5G Mobile Communications
Lei Ge ,1 Jianpeng Wang,2 Mingjian Li,3 Ting-Yen Shih,4 and Shichang Chen5
1
College of Electronic Science and Technology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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Ministerial Key Laboratory of JGMT, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Idaho, Moscow, USA
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Key Laboratory of RF Circuits and Systems of the Ministry of Education of China, Microelectronic CAD Center,
Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China
Copyright © 2018 Lei Ge et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which
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With the blooming of wireless technologies for communi- The work in the paper titled “Single-Layer, Dual-Port,
cations, the fifth-generation (5G) mobile communications Dual-Band, and Orthogonal-Circularly Polarized Microstrip
have become one of the hottest topics in recent years. For Antenna Array with Low Frequency Ratio” proposed a
any wireless devices and systems, antennas, filters, amplifiers, method to realize an orthogonal-circularly polarized antenna
mixers, and so on are crucial components for the RF front- array with dual bands.
end. Thus the demand for different kinds of advanced and The paper with the title of “A Low VSWR and High
high-performance antennas and circuits is increasing expo- Efficiency Waveguide Feed Antenna Array” introduced a
nentially. However, most conventional designs have difficulty high-efficiency slot antenna array by using waveguide feed.
to satisfy those stringent requirements of the 5G mobile The radiation efficiency could achieve as high as larger than
communications on bandwidth, radiation pattern, size, and 80%.
cost. High-performance antennas and circuits for 5G mobile The paper “Low Profile Flexible UHF RFID Tag Design
applications are therefore very attractive for researchers from for Wristbands Applications” presented a low profile RFID
both academic and industrial areas. This special issue solicits tag antenna for healthcare applications. The proposed slotted
high-quality contributions regarding the design of microwave design can easily allow the tag’s input impedance to be
and millimeter-wave antennas and circuits for the upcoming tuned to the complex impedance of typical UHF RFID
communication systems. chips.
In this special issue, we have 5 papers investigating In this special issue, we have 4 papers investigating passive
antennas for 5G mobile communications. Specifically, in and active radio-frequency (RF) circuits for 5G communi-
“Reconfigurable Magneto-Electric Dipole Antennas for Base cations. Specifically, in “A Reactance Compensated Three-
Stations in Modern Wireless Communication Systems”, the Device Doherty Power Amplifier for Bandwidth and Back-
authors reviewed several reconfigurable directional anten- Off Range Extension”, the authors proposed a new broadband
nas for base station applications. The results showed that Doherty power amplifier topology with extended back-off
magneto-electric dipole antennas provide wide bands, high range. Underlying bandwidth extension mechanism of the
gains, and well-controlled radiation patterns and are suitable proposed configuration was comprehensively analyzed.
to be employed in reconfigurable base station antennas. In the paper titled “A Doherty Power Amplifier with
In “Magnetoelectric Dipole Antenna with Dual Polariza- Large Back-Off Power Range Using Integrated Enhancing
tion and High Isolation”, the authors aimed at modeling and Reactance”, a symmetric Doherty power amplifier based on
analyzing a novel dual-polarized antenna element which was integrated enhancing reactance (IER) was proposed for large
suitable to be applied in the further 5G mobile base stations. back-off applications.
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