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The presented antenna design is suitable for 5G user equipment and high data rates applications by which it has a compact size with low cost and complexity. The size of the antenna is 37.2 \u00d7 37.2 mm2 including the ground plane, and it produces 10 different switched beams by using only two simple 3 dB\/90\u2218 couplers which create the required amplitudes and phase excitations for the antenna elements. A one-port simple feeding mechanism including Peregrine PE42525 SPDT switch modules and a power divider is used to generate and measure the 10 switched beams. The antenna design is implemented on a two-layer 0.203 mm thick low-loss (tan\u03b4 = 0.0027) Rogers 4003C substrate, and it has a measured 10 dB impedance bandwidth of 4 GHz (14.3%, from 26 GHz to 30 GHz) for all ports. Measured peak isolation between any dual-polarized ports of the antenna is better than 30 dB. The antenna has an average measured realized gain of 8.9 dBi and around 10 dB side lobe level (SLL) for all beams. The antenna has 3-dB coverage of 80\u2218 to 90\u2218 in 2D space and it has a maximum of \u00b126\u2218 beam-steering angle. The antenna is designed and simulated using Ansys HFSS and fabricated using regular PCB processing.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21217138","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,27]],"date-time":"2021-10-27T23:24:42Z","timestamp":1635377082000},"page":"7138","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["A 28 GHz 2 \u00d7 2 Antenna Array with 10 Beams Using Passive SPDT Switch Beamforming Network"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0032-6484","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Firas","family":"Abdul Ghani","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronics Engineering, Sabanci University, Istanbul 34956, Turkey"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5176-1422","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Amir Mohsen Ahmadi","family":"Najafabadi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronics Engineering, Sabanci University, Istanbul 34956, Turkey"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3365-9165","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Heba","family":"Saleh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronics Engineering, Sabanci University, Istanbul 34956, Turkey"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4328-5985","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Murat","family":"Kaya Yapici","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronics Engineering, Sabanci University, Istanbul 34956, Turkey"},{"name":"Sabanci University SUNUM Nanotechnology Research Center, Istanbul 34956, Turkey"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5716-1348","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ibrahim","family":"Tekin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronics Engineering, Sabanci University, Istanbul 34956, Turkey"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2657","DOI":"10.1007\/s11276-015-0942-z","article-title":"A Survey of Millimeter Wave (mmWave) Communications for 5G: Opportunities and Challenges","volume":"21","author":"Niu","year":"2015","journal-title":"Wirel. 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