Predicting Power Density of Array Antenna in mmWave Applications With Deep Learning

In this paper, we present a method for obtaining the power density value, which is the standard for radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic field (EMF) human exposure from mmWave mobile devices, using a deep learning network. An mmWave mobile communication device that uses an array antenna requires a large number of phase conditions for covering a wide communication range. However, the power density values must be repeatedly obtained every time the phase conditions are changed, which incurs a lot of time and cost. For implementing the process seamlessly, we present a deep learning network that can input the phase conditions of the mmWave array antenna and simultaneously obtain the power density results for the phase conditions of the array antenna as an output. For a 4×1 array patch antenna, which is commonly used in 5G mobile communication devices, the phases of the antenna were changed, and 5,832 electric and magnetic field data were acquired, which were then converted to power density values and learned thereafter. We examined whether appropriate power density values were output when inputting arbitrary phase sets of array antennas for the learned deep learning network. With the learned deep learning network, it was confirmed that when inputting unlearned phases for a 4×1 array antenna, the power density values similar to the actual simulation were quickly obtained as output.