Printed radome for reconfigurable antenna radiation pattern in 5G applications

This paper presents an innovative radome in order to customize antennas radiation pattern for 5G applications. For that, a 3D direct writing process is used to print patterns onto a half sphere radome. In this way, the radiation pattern of a ring patch antenna is more directional, and the gain is increased from 2.39 dBi to 4.55 dBi.