A chip printed monopole antenna for Wireless Implantable Body Area Network (WiBAN) application

Author

Ramli, N.H. ; Kamarudin, Muhammad Ramlee ; Ahyat, E.N. ; Samsuri, N.A. ; Jamlos, M.F.

Author_Institution

Wireless Commun. Center, Univ. Teknol. Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia

fYear

2013

fDate

7-13 July 2013

Firstpage

1756

Lastpage

1757

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to design a chip printed monopole antenna for WiBAN application at 6.0GHz. The implantable antenna in this study is submerged into canola oil which provide lossy environment representing the human breast tissue. The antenna performances are evaluated in term of gain, return loss, efficiency, radiation pattern and operating bandwidth. Both simulation and measurement results are in good agreement and hence satisfactory performances are achieved. The antenna gain of 5.8dBi with efficiency of 97% is achieved from the simulation. The antenna radiation pattern shows directional pattern with 6 lobes indicating that the antenna can cover more directions and this would be a very beneficial considering of body movement. Overall results prominently show that the chip implantable antenna is a useful candidate for Wireless Implantable Body Area Network (WiBAN) Applications.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; body area networks; microstrip antennas; monopole antennas; WiBAN application; antenna radiation pattern; canola oil; chip printed monopole antenna; frequency 6.0 GHz; gain 5.8 dB; human breast tissue; lossy environment; wireless implantable body area network; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Loss measurement; Semiconductor device measurement; Slot antennas; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5315-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2013.6711537

Filename

6711537