This paper presents a very compact, wideband, and enhanced-gain antenna for 5G applications. A simple single-layer millimeter wave (mm-wave) metamaterial lens (meta-lens) is used to improve the gain, aperture efficiency, and gain bandwidth of a slotted-patch antenna over a wide range of frequencies from 25 GHz to 31 GHz. The lens exhibits a metamaterial negative refractive index behavior, which is attributed to a substantial gain enhancement of around 4-5 dBi over the whole band compared to the gain values of the slotted patch antenna alone. The lens's unit cell comprises a simple single-layer split ring resonator (SRR) whose dimensions are carefully chosen to improve transmitted power and suppress absorbed and reflected power. The meta-lens consists of 8×8 subwavelength SRR unit cells. Each cell has an area of 1.6×1.6 mm 2 , it is located in the near-field region closely above a slotted patch antenna to produce a total antenna size of 12.8 ×12.8 ×7.27mm 3 ( 1.2 λ × 1.2 λ × 0.68 λ, where λ is the free space wavelength at 28 GHz). The maximum gain of the proposed antenna is 12.7 dBi, the 1 dB gain bandwidth is 18%, the maximum aperture efficiency is 92%, and the -10 dB impedance bandwidth (10 dB B.W.) is 17%. This excellent combination of essential metrics is hard to realize at mm-wave using narrowband antenna structures (microstrip patch antennas), and the aperture efficiency is the highest thus far for such a class of antennas.INDEX TERMS Wideband 5G antenna, Gain enhancement, Aperture efficiency, Negative refractive index, Millimeter wave meta-lens.

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The objective of this paper is to use a zero refractive index n metamaterial as single layer superstrate suspended above a microstrip patch antenna (MPA), operating at 43 GHz, for the gain enhancement. The single metamaterial layer superstrate is composed of a periodic arrangement of Jerusalem cross unit-cells, and behaves as an homogeneous medium characterized by a refractive index close to zero. This metamaterial low index property allows gathering radiated waves from the antenna and collimates them towards the superstrate normal direction. The proposed design improves the antenna gain by 5.1 dB.

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