Stacked circular patch antenna for medical BAN

Author

Chandran, Anupam R. ; Timmons, Nick ; Morrison, Jim

Author_Institution

WiSAR Lab., Letterkenny Inst. of Technol., Letterkenny, Ireland

fYear

2014

fDate

10-11 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

22

Lastpage

25

Abstract

This paper presents the development of a new stacked circular patch antenna at 2.45 GHz for communication between sensor nodes attached at different locations on a human body in medical body area networks. The antenna exhibits a bandwidth of 3.7% centered at 2.45 GHz, when placed (2mm) above from a muscle tissue phantom. The antenna gives a radiation pattern similar to that of a conventional monopole antenna, which is a requisite for on-body communication. The on-body efficiency of the proposed antenna is 55.12% which is good considering its low profile nature.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; body area networks; microstrip antenna arrays; monopole antenna arrays; antenna radiation pattern; frequency 2.45 GHz; medical BAN; medical body area networks; monopole antenna; muscle tissue phantom; onbody communication; sensor nodes; stacked circular patch antenna; Antenna radiation patterns; Body area networks; Couplings; Patch antennas; Phantoms; Wireless communication; Microstrip antenna; On-body communication; Wearable antennas; Wireless body area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2014 Loughborough

Conference_Location

Loughborough

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LAPC.2014.6996311

Filename

6996311