DocumentCode
3718936
Title
Low-profile on-body communication antenna configuration with embedded electronics inside
Author
Tommi Tuovinen;Markus Berg;Erkki Salonen
Author_Institution
Centre for Wireless Communications, Department of Communications Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland
fYear
2015
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
4
Abstract
The present paper proposes an on-body antenna for wearable sensor nodes/wireless body area networks (WBANs) at 10 GHz. The radiator configuration follows the recently introduced new antenna design philosophy where electronics are embedded inside the antenna. The suggested sensor node antenna structure has a low total profile of λ/3 in the x- and y-directions and λ/5 in the z-direction. The antenna radiator is designed by maintaining pure normal polarization with a body surface and omnidirectional radiation pattern in the tangential plane of a body.
Keywords
"Wireless communication","Antenna radiation patterns","Phantoms","Textiles","Surface waves","Body area networks"
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Antennas & Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2015 Loughborough
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LAPC.2015.7366042
Filename
7366042
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