Title :
Design of a circular-ring patch on-body antenna with shorting vias for WBAN application
Author :
Jinpil Tak ; Kyeol Kwon ; Jaehoon Choi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Hanyang Univ., Seoul, South Korea
Abstract :
A circular-ring patch on-body antenna with a shorting via for WBAN application is proposed. The proposed circular-ring patch antenna has the maximum radiation direction along the body surface for on-body communication in the industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) 2.45 GHz band. In order to achieve low profile, the proposed antenna used shorting vias to excite TM31 mode at ISM 2.45 GHz. To enhance bandwidth performance, an annular ring with shorting via is closely located around a circular patch. Proposed antenna is fed by a via connected with a microstrip line. The overall dimension of proposed antenna is 60 mm × 65 mm × 3.15 mm.
Keywords :
UHF antennas; body area networks; microstrip antennas; ISM; TM31 mode; WBAN application; bandwidth performance; circular-ring patch on-body antenna; industrial scientific and medical; maximum radiation direction; microstrip line; on-body communication; Antenna radiation patterns; Broadband antennas; Dielectric resonator antennas; Patch antennas; Phantoms; TM31 mode; annular ring patch; monopole; on-body antenna; patch antenna; shorting via; wireless body area network (WBAN);
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC), 2013 Asia-Pacific
Conference_Location :
Seoul
DOI :
10.1109/APMC.2013.6694863