A Low-Profile Shared Aperture Antenna for FR1 and FR2 5G Frequency Bands

Shared-aperture antennas are attracting a wide interest in last of years, due to their inherent compactness and low-profile layout. More specifically, in this work a shared-aperture antenna for FR1 and FR2 frequency bands is proposed. The difference in size between the radiating elements operating the two frequency bands can be exploited to embed different antennas in the same area. A 4 x 4 patch array for FR2 is embedded inside a FR1 shaped patch antenna. The antenna system is designed by preserving a low-profile architecture suitable for planar technology. The performance of the antenna system are evaluated for both the bands achieving a 10-dB bandwidth equal to 0.14 GHz (3.8 %) for FR1 and to 2.32 GHz (8.6 %) for FR2. In FR2, a +/- 30 degrees steering capability along the H plane is shown.