Effect of wireless charging antennas on transmission of an antenna pair through human body

Author

Goh, C.K. ; Xianming Qing ; Zhi Ning Chen ; See, Terence Shie Ping

Author_Institution

RF & Opt. Dept., Inst. for Infocomm Res., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2012

fDate

27-29 Aug. 2012

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

58

Abstract

In this paper, the effect of the spiral antenna and the loop antenna for wireless charging on the transmission of an antenna pair comprising an external antenna and an implanted antenna through human body is studied. The transmission characteristic of the antenna pair with a wireless charging antenna positioned between the antenna pair is investigated over the frequency band of 3 - 5 GHz. It is found that the loop antenna features a limited effect on the transmission response while the spiral antenna causes the transmission response to change drastically across the frequency band. It is suggested that a loop antenna, compared to a spiral antenna, is a more efficient wireless charging antenna for an implanted radio system and causes less effect on the transmission between the external and the implanted antenna pair.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; biomedical communication; inductive power transmission; loop antennas; spiral antennas; antenna pair transmission; frequency 3 GHz to 5 GHz; human body communication; implanted antenna; implanted radio system; loop antenna; spiral antenna; transmission response; wireless charging antenna effect; Antenna measurements; Radio frequency; Spirals; Substrates; Transmitting antennas; Wireless communication; human-body communication; implanted antenna; loop antenna; spiral antenna; wireless charging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (APCAP), 2012 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0666-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCAP.2012.6333138

Filename

6333138