Graphene Based Antenna Array for 5G Applications

Abstract

The rapidity of producing good material for electronic use is really beneficial to the wireless communication technology especially in material engineering field. Research works are on-going to find potential material that has the ability to replace the limitation of conventional material. Related to this work, fifth generation (5G) antenna will be completed with high data rate and low interference besides welcoming the advantages of the coming new material in terms of aesthetic value. Since there are some limitations using conventional material for higher frequency, then this paper proposes graphene to be used as radiating or receiving element in antenna design. An antenna with CPW-fed chamfer-shaped with rectangular slot made by graphene at 15 GHz is proposed. The antenna is designed for single and array in which the array has 8 elements with inter-element spacing at 0.71λ. The antenna has large bandwidth with more than 1 GHz and achieve high gain with more than 12 dBi.