mm-Wave Metasurface Antennas for 5G Wireless Networks

Extrapolating from current market trends and financial growth in mobile technology, it is predicted that next generation wireless networks will be required to support about a 1,000-fold increase in data capacity to handle over 100 billion devices featuring peak rates of 10 Gb/s. Consequently, there is a rapid transition to devise and innovate novel mm-wave systems covering the 60 GHz mm-wave spectrum (IEEE 802.11ad) owing to the large unlicensed bandwidth, capable of supporting the required multi-gigabit communication systems. mm-Wave propagation features a highly directive communication, where the electromagnetic (EM) signal follows a near line-of-sight (LOS) communication between the intended transmitters and receivers. Recently, there has been a great interest in a new class of antennas, called metasurface antennas, which are 2D antenna structures whose physical apertures are engineered at a sub-wavelength scale, to generate arbitrary EM radiation for smart beam-forming applications.TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Shulabh Gupta

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Partner:

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Carleton University

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