• DocumentCode
    1676051
  • Title

    Design of a cylindrical resonant cavity antenna for BAN applications at V band

  • Author

    Brizzi, A. ; Pellegrini, A. ; Hao, Y.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electron. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Queen Mary Univ. of London, London, UK
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    152
  • Lastpage
    155
  • Abstract
    An antenna for on-body applications based on a cylindrical resonator is presented in this paper. The antenna is designed to work at V-band, specifically in the unlicensed bandwidth around 60GHz.The resonant cavity is obtained by means of a woodpile Electronic Band Gap (EBG) structure made of alumina, and exhibits an omnidirectional radiation pattern on the plane normal to the cylinder axis. Such characteristic is extremely important for on-body application, since it improves the signal coverage of the human surface while reducing the energy lost in off-body radiation.
  • Keywords
    alumina; antenna radiation patterns; body area networks; cavity resonators; millimetre wave antennas; photonic band gap; BAN; V-band; alumina; body area networks; cylindrical resonant cavity antenna design; energy lost; human surface; off-body radiation; omnidirectional radiation pattern; woodpile electronic band gap structure; Antenna feeds; Antenna radiation patterns; Cavity resonators; Metamaterials; Resonant frequency; Skin;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antenna Technology (iWAT), 2012 IEEE International Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Tucson, AZ
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0036-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IWAT.2012.6178421
  • Filename
    6178421