Wideband miniaturized patch radiator for Sub-6 GHz 5G devices

In this article, the compact wideband elliptically slotted semi-circular patch radiator with the defected ground structure for sub-6 GHz applications is designed and developed. The proposed miniaturized patch radiator offers flexibility in adjusting the band of operation by varying the slot dimensions. The effective size reduction is achieved by comparing different iterations in the process of designing and the size of the regular circular-shaped radiator is reduced into the semi-circular radiating patch. The impact of the variation of effective radius of the semi-circular patch, major-axis radius of the elliptical slot, ground plane length, and feed line width is investigated. The size of the proposed radiator is 23.885 × 23.885 × 1.405 mm³. This compact structure manifests the wide bandwidth of 2140 MHz (3.2 GHz-5.34 GHz) with 50% of fractional bandwidth (FBW). The measured results show good agreement with the simulated results. The various parameters validate the utility of the radiator in the C band of super-high frequency (SHF) spectrum and n77 (3.3 GHz-4.2 GHz), n78 (3.3 GHz-3.8 GHz), and n79 (4.4 GHz-5 GHz) bands of the frequency range 1 (FR1) of the sub-6 GHz 5G spectrum.