Dual band electrically small non-uniform pitch ellipsoidal helix antenna for cardiac pacemakers

Author

Haiyu Huang ; Pai-Yen Chen ; Ferrari, Mauro ; Ye Hu ; Akinwande, Deji

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

20-23 Jan. 2013

Firstpage

148

Lastpage

150

Abstract

A dual band electrically small folded ellipsoidal helix antenna (EHA) is designed for the wireless data communication and wireless power transferring functions of an artificial cardiac pacemaker. In this design, a spatially non-uniform pitch ellipsoidal helix structure is used to tune the dual resonant frequencies to the desired bands at 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz. Measurement on an wire antenna fabricated using selective laser sintering shows more than 10% relative bandwidth at each frequency band.

Keywords

body sensor networks; helical antennas; laser sintering; multifrequency antennas; pacemakers; prosthetic power supplies; wire antennas; artificial cardiac pacemaker; dual band electrically small nonuniform pitch ellipsoidal helix antenna; dual resonant frequency tuning; folded ellipsoidal helix antenna; frequency 900 MHz to 2.4 GHz; selective laser sintering; spatially nonuniform pitch ellipsoidal helix structure; wire antenna fabrication; wireless data communication; wireless power transferring function; Dual band; Helical antennas; Resonant frequency; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Wires; Electrically small antennas; current distribution; dual band antenna; medical implants;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems (BioWireleSS), 2013 IEEE Topical Conference on

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2930-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BioWireleSS.2013.6613704

Filename

6613704