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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics

26 GHz Band Extremely Low-Profile Front-End Configuration Employing Integrated Modules of Patch Antennas and SIW Filters

Yasunori SUZUKI, Takana KAHO, Kei SATOH, Hiroshi OKAZAKI, Maki ARAI, Yo YAMAGUCHI, Shoichi NARAHASHI, Hiroyuki SHIBA

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This paper presents an extremely low-profile front-end configuration for a base station at quasi-millimeter wave band. It consists of integrated modules of patch antennas and substrate integrated waveguide filters using two printed circuit boards, and transmitter modules using compact GaAs pHEMT three-dimensional monolithic millimeter-wave integrated circuits. The transmitter modules are located around the integrated modules. This is because the proposed front-end configuration can attain extremely low profile, and band-pass filtering performance at quasi-millimeter wave band. As a demonstration of the proposed configuration, 26-GHz-band 4-by-4 elements front-end module is fabricated and tested. The fabricated module has the thickness of about 1 cm, while that offers the attenuation of more than 30 dB with 2 GHz offset from 26 GHz. The proposed configuration can provide base station that can be effective in offering sub-millimeter wave and millimeter-wave bands broadband services for 5G mobile communications systems.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E100-C No.12 pp.1097-1107
Publication Date
2017/12/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1353
DOI
10.1587/transele.E100.C.1097
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Microwaves, Millimeter-Waves

Authors

Yasunori SUZUKI
  NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Takana KAHO
  NTT
Kei SATOH
  NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Hiroshi OKAZAKI
  NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Maki ARAI
  NTT
Yo YAMAGUCHI
  NTT
Shoichi NARAHASHI
  NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Hiroyuki SHIBA
  NTT

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