Wearable biomonitoring monopole antennas using inkjet printed electromagnetic band gap structures

Author

Kim, Sangkil ; Tentzeris, Manos M. ; Nikolaou, Symeon

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

26-30 March 2012

Firstpage

181

Lastpage

184

Abstract

In this paper, a monopole antenna with a novel nanotechnology-enabled inkjet printed electromagnetic band gap structure (EBG) is introduced for wearable biomonitoring applications with minimal “on-body” performance degradation. The proposed antenna is very thin and flexible since it can be easily fabricated with direct inkjet-printing on commercially available plastic or photo paper, potentially enabling wearable wireless sensing modules with improved communication range.

Keywords

body area networks; ink jet printing; monopole antennas; nanotechnology; inkjet printed electromagnetic band gap structures; nanotechnology; on-body performance degradation; wearable biomonitoring application; wearable biomonitoring monopole antenna; wearable wireless sensing modules; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Metamaterials; Periodic structures; Sensors; Substrates; artificial magnetic conductor (AMC); biomonitoring; body area networks (BANs); electromagnetic band gap structure (EBGs); inkjet printing; nanotechnology; wearable antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 2012 6th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Prague

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0918-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0919-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6206577

Filename

6206577