A novel wearable antenna array for 2.45 GHz WLAN application

Author

Islam, Md Rashidul ; Ali, Mohammod

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

3-8 July 2011

Firstpage

2754

Lastpage

2757

Abstract

A three-element wearable antenna array is introduced for operation at 2.45 GHz. Using varactor controlled parasitic elements near a driven folded dipole a scanning angular range of 95° can be achieved in the azimuth plane. Simulation results confirm that the peak gain of the array is 6.9 dBi when it is placed at 20 mm above the chest of a heterogeneous anatomical human body model. Almost 30% improvement in radiation efficiency is obtained with the parasitic array compared to a single resonant antenna. Also the new antenna array results in much lower specific absorption rate (SAR) compared to a conventional resonant λ/2 dipole antenna.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; dipole antenna arrays; wearable antennas; wireless LAN; WLAN application; azimuth plane; folded dipole antenna array; frequency 2.45 GHz; heterogeneous anatomical human body model; radiation efficiency; scanning angular range; single resonant antenna; specific absorption rate; three-element wearable antenna array; varactor controlled parasitic elements; Antenna arrays; Antenna radiation patterns; Arrays; Biological system modeling; Dipole antennas; Body-worn antenna; anatomical body model; parasitic array; specific absorption rate (SAR);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Spokane, WA

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9562-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2011.5997096

Filename

5997096