A wearable button antenna with FSS superstrate for WLAN health care applications

Author

Mandal, Bappaditya ; Chatterjee, Ayan ; Parui, Susanta Kumar

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun. Eng., Indian Inst. Eng. Sci. & Technol., Howrah, India

fYear

2014

fDate

8-10 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

In this article a compact miniaturized wearable antenna with the appearance of a button on clothing for WLAN applications is presented. The radiating elements of the antenna are made of copper sheet, whilst a transparent acrylic fiber sheet material is used as substrate and fed by a coaxial line through the ground plane. The proposed antenna is simulated by Ansoft HFSS FEM based EM simulator and has been optimized to operate within the WLAN frequency bands with centre frequency of 5.25 GHz (5250-5850 MHz). A split ring-shaped slot based frequency selective surface (FSS) is designed to enhance the gain of the proposed antenna. The peak gain of the antenna is enhanced from 2.1dBi to 5.1dBi with the superstrate along with a bandwidth enhancement of 290MHz. The antenna gets miniaturized around 34% by the slit.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; frequency selective surfaces; health care; polymer fibres; sheet materials; telemedicine; wearable antennas; wireless LAN; Ansoft HFSS FEM; EM simulator; FSS superstrate; WLAN frequency bands; WLAN health care applications; antenna peak gain; antenna radiating elements; bandwidth 290 MHz; bandwidth enhancement; coaxial line; copper sheet material; frequency selective surface; ground plane; split ring-shaped slot; transparent acrylic fiber; wearable button antenna; Antenna measurements; Bandwidth; Clothing; Frequency selective surfaces; Materials; Wireless LAN; Acrylic Sheet; Button Antenna; FSS; WLAN; Wearable;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RF and Wireless Technologies for Biomedical and Healthcare Applications (IMWS-Bio), 2014 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5445-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMWS-BIO.2014.7032386

Filename

7032386