02 January 2020

Antenna Company claims it has developed the industry’s first 5G dielectric resonator phased antenna array designed specifically for 5G mm-wave applications.

The 64-antenna Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA) combines patented SuperShape and DRA technology to achieve wide-band operation over the 24-30 GHz frequency bands.

Antenna Company says the mm-wave DRA array demonstrates reduced scanning losses, lower sidelobe levels and greater maximum scan angle compared to a conventional patch array using the same configuration and inter-element separation.

What’s more the firm says the improvements in scanning performance enable better coverage over the usable frequency band.

The design, so the company says, achieves over 40 dBm of peak EIRP, which is suitable for use in customer-premise-equipment (CPE) products.

The design is scalable to support 37-40 GHz frequency bands for global band support across the mm-wave spectrum.

The production version of the design, featuring 64 dual-polarization antenna elements, 5G NR radio transceiver, RF front-end, and support for beam-steering and beam-forming is planned to be released in 2H-2020. 

www.antennacompany.com