Wide-incident-angle wideband radio-wave absorbers boost 5G and beyond 5G applications
Radio-wave absorbers for millimeter-wave and terahertz frequencies enhance advanced antenna beamforming and steering
2024-11-08
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5G wireless communication services have rapidly expanded worldwide, leveraging millimeter-wave (mmW) frequencies in the 24 GHz to 71 GHz range (referred to as frequency range 2, or FR2). Looking ahead, Beyond 5G and 6G services, projected to offer ultra-fast connectivity exceeding 100 Gbit/s, are expected to be introduced in the 2030s. Frequencies in the 150-GHz to 300-GHz range are being considered as potential candidates for these future networks. However, critical components such as radio-wave absorbers, essential for packaging and modularization, still need to be developed. These absorbers play a key role in reducing unwanted reflections and emissions from chips and modules across broad bandwidths, spanning tens of gigahertz. Additionally, modern mmW and terahertz (THz) absorbers must demonstrate strong performance at wide incident angles to support integration with advanced antenna technologies like beamforming and steering.
A collaborative research team, including Institute of Science Tokyo (formerly Tokyo Institute of Technology), Hiroshima University, Tokyo University of Science, the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), and Maxell, Ltd., has developed wide-incident-angle radio-wave absorbers for mmW and THz applications. The team's research introduces radio-wave absorbers utilizing loop-shaped frequency-selective surfaces (FSS), which enhance co-design with antenna beamforming and steering due to their wide-incident-angle absorption properties. These absorbers are versatile and can be applied to lower frequency bands such as 4G LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. The loop-shaped FSS improves performance in lower frequency transmission, reducing transmission loss to below 7 dB (simulated at 0-degree incident angle) at 2.4 GHz. The absorbers achieve 90% wideband absorption across the 26.5 GHz–40 GHz range (for 30-GHz absorbers) and 95.4 GHz–181 GHz/328 GHz–431 GHz (for 150-GHz absorbers) at incident angles up to 60 degrees.
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