Concurrent 60/94 GHz SIR Based Planar Antenna for 5G/MM-Wave Imaging Applications

The present research work aims towards the design of a stepped impedance resonator (SIR) based dual band antenna having resonant frequencies at millimeter wave: V band (center frequency: 60 GHz) and W band (center frequency: 94 GHz). The structure comprises of stepped impedance resonator (SIR) patch, two stepped section impedance matching network and a microstrip feedline. The fractional bandwidth of the proposed dual band antenna is 2.9 GHz (4.8%) and 6.25 GHz (6.6%) at 60 and 94 GHz, respectively. The far field polar plots show broadside radiation pattern having gain of 7.9 dBi at 60 GHz and 4.2 dBi at 94 GHz. Further, as a testimony of this concept, scaling principle was used and accordingly microwave scaled antenna was devised. The prototype scaled hardware results matched closely with the designed mm-wave antenna. Further, the proposed dual frequency antenna finds enormous applications towards development of pioneering millimeter wave systems like; 60 GHz is focused on multi gigabit WPAN communication and 94 GHz frequency is currently extensively used for millimeter wave imaging applications. The proposed design is very simple, conformal and easily extendable as an array for MMIC applications for compact frontend design.