Dear Colleagues,

Recently, the world’s first 5G wireless communication service featuring high-data transmission and low latency was launched in Korea and the United States. Although massive MIMO antennas and phased array antennas are essential radio frequency (RF) components to satisfy 3GPP/ITU 5G specification, the currently commercialized antenna architectures that enable limited MIMO and point-to-point communication cannot be universally compatible across a diverse range of future wireless devices and platforms, such as multisensory extended reality (XR) (encompassing AR/MR/VR), connected vehicles and autonomous driving, wireless brain-computer interactions (BCI), and blockchain applications. In order to realize the aforementioned devices and guarantee their performance, revolutionary antenna architectures for beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G wireless systems featuring extremely high bit rates, super low latencies, high volumetric spectral and energy efficiency, joint communication and sensing, and holographic radios, should be proposed.

Studies dedicated to future antenna architectures for B5G and 6G wireless antenna systems can be exemplified as electronic-based devices in sub-6 GHz/millimeter-wave (mm-wave)/terahertz (THz) spectrum. Such devices can range from energy efficient multi-beam antennas and intelligent electromagnetic surfaces, antenna-on-everything (AoX) (encompassing package/chip/display) devices, artificial intelligence (AI)-based multi-modal wireless devices, wireless power transfer, and energy harvesting RF devices, and so on.

MDPI Electronics is announcing a Special Issue on “Design, Simulation, Integration, and Measurement Technologies of 5G/B5G/6G Antennas”. Although previous Special Issues have been on fragment topics related to the antenna techniques, mm-wave/THz techniques, and 5G applications, this Special Issue focuses on the entire realization methodologies of reliable antenna systems to commercialize 5G/B5G/6G applications. We invite researchers to contribute original and unique articles, as well as sophisticated review articles. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following keywords:

• electronic-based devices in sub-6 GHz/mm-wave/THz spectrum
• energy efficient multi-beam antenna and intelligent electromagnetic surfaces
• design and integration techniques based on advanced fabrication process
• wireless power transfer and energy harvesting RF devices
• AI-based computation and simulation method in materials and complicated scenarios
• measurement and calibration techniques
• co-existence issues related to the current wireless communication RF devices.

Dr. Jae-yeong Lee
Dr. Shaoyong Zheng
Dr. Wonbin Hong
Guest Editors

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