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

20-20 Jan. 2013

Firstpage

154

Lastpage

156

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

UHF antennas; bioelectric phenomena; biomedical communication; cardiology; data communication; laser sintering; multifrequency antennas; pacemakers; wire antennas; EHA; artificial cardiac pacemaker; dual band electrically small nonuniform pitch ellipsoidal helix antenna; dual resonant frequencies; frequency 2.4 Hz; frequency 900 MHz; frequency band; relative bandwidth; selective laser sintering; spatially nonuniform pitch ellipsoidal helix structure; wire antenna; 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

Power Amplifiers for Wireless and Radio Applications (PAWR), 2013 IEEE Topical Conference on

Conference_Location

Santa Clara, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2915-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2931-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAWR.2013.6490220

Filename

6490220