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In these arrays, it is critical to isolate the adjacent antennas to prevent unwanted interaction between them. Fifth generation absorbers, in this regard, are the recent interest of many researchers nowadays. The authors present a dual-band novel metamaterial-based 5G absorber. The absorber operates at 24 GHz and 28 GHz and is composed of symmetric meander lines connected through a transmission line. An analytical model used to calculate the total number of required meander lines to design the absorber is delineated. The analytical model is based on the total inductance offered by the meander line structure in an impedance-matched electronic circuit. The proposed absorber works on the principal of resonance and absorbs two 5G bands (24 GHz and 28 GHz). A complete angular stability analysis was carried out prior to experiments for both transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) polarizations. Further, the resonance conditions are altered by changing the substrate thickness and incidence angle of the incident fields to demonstrate the functionality of the absorber. The comparison between simulated and measured results shows that such an absorber would be a strong candidate for the absorption in millimetre-wave array antennas, where elements are placed in proximity within compact 5G devices.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22103764","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,15]],"date-time":"2022-05-15T09:48:22Z","timestamp":1652608102000},"page":"3764","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["A Novel Meander Line Metamaterial Absorber Operating at 24 GHz and 28 GHz for the 5G Applications"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6258-6858","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Syed Aftab","family":"Naqvi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Sahiwal 57000, Pakistan"}]},{"given":"Muhammad Abuzar","family":"Baqir","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Sahiwal 57000, Pakistan"}]},{"given":"Grant","family":"Gourley","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Signals, Sensors and Systems, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8694-5341","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Adnan","family":"Iftikhar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Sahiwal 57000, Pakistan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9864-264X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Muhammad","family":"Saeed Khan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, 35122 Padova, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4266-0309","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dimitris E.","family":"Anagnostou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Signals, Sensors and Systems, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1065","DOI":"10.1109\/JSAC.2014.2328098","article-title":"What will 5G be?","volume":"32","author":"Andrews","year":"2014","journal-title":"IEEE J. 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