A printed antenna with a ground plane and electromagnetically coupled feed for 2.45GHz body area networks

Author

Abbas, Saad Mutashar ; Esselle, Karu P. ; Ranga, Yogesh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng., Macquarie Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2013

fDate

7-13 July 2013

Firstpage

2143

Lastpage

2144

Abstract

This paper presents a printed antenna with a full ground plane and electromagnetically coupled feed for body area network devices operating in industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band at 2.45 GHz. Performance characteristics along with parametric analysis are presented. Specific absorption rate (SAR) analysis is carried out to investigate its performance for body centric wireless communication. The electromagnetically-coupled feed used is tuned to fill a null in the radiation pattern and to achieve impedance matching. The proposed antenna exhibits wide radiation pattern along the body surface to provide maximum coverage and its narrow width (14mm) makes it suitable for on-body applications.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; body area networks; impedance matching; microstrip antennas; ISM band; SAR analysis; antenna radiation pattern; body area network devices; body centric wireless communication; electromagnetically coupled feed; frequency 2.45 GHz; full ground plane; ground plane; impedance matching; industrial scientific and medical band; parametric analysis; printed antenna; size 14 mm; specific absorption rate; Antenna radiation patterns; Biological system modeling; Body area networks; Feeds; Wireless communication; Body centric; ISM band; On-body; Printed antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5315-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2013.6711730

Filename

6711730