Dual band electrically small non-uniform pitch ellipsoidal helix antenna for cardiac pacemakers

Author

Haiyu Huang ; Pai-Yen Chen ; Ferrari, Mauro ; Ye Hu ; Akinwande, Deji

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

21-23 Jan. 2013

Firstpage

225

Lastpage

227

Abstract

A dual band electrically small folded ellipsoidal helix antenna (EHA) is designed for the wireless data communication and wireless power transferring functions of an artificial cardiac pacemaker. In this design, a spatially non-uniform pitch ellipsoidal helix structure is used to tune the dual resonant frequencies to the desired bands at 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz. Measurement on an wire antenna fabricated using selective laser sintering shows more than 10% relative bandwidth at each frequency band.

Keywords

biomedical communication; cardiology; data communication; helical antennas; laser sintering; multifrequency antennas; pacemakers; power transmission; wire antennas; artificial cardiac pacemaker; bandwidth; bandwidth 2.4 GHz; bandwidth 900 MHz; dual band antenna; dual resonant frequencies; frequency band; laser sintering; pitch ellipsoidal helix antenna; wire antenna fabrication; wireless data communication; wireless power transferring functions; Dual band; Helical antennas; Resonant frequency; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Wires; Electrically small antennas; current distribution; dual band antenna; medical implants;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF), 2013 IEEE 13th Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1552-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-1551-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SiRF.2013.6489487

Filename

6489487