A printed dual band antenna with a ground plane and electromagnetically-coupled feed for wireless body area networks

Author

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

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2014

fDate

4-6 March 2014

Firstpage

15

Lastpage

17

Abstract

This paper presents a printed dual band antenna with a full ground plane and electromagnetically coupled feed for body area network devices operating in the industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band at 2.45 GHz and 4.9GHz public safety Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) band (4.94-4.99GHz). Performance along with parametric analyses are presented. Investigations have been carried out to assess its performance for body centric wireless communication. The electromagnetically-coupled feed is tuned to fill a null in the radiation pattern and to achieve impedance matching. The proposed antenna exhibits a wide radiation pattern along the body surface to provide maximum coverage and its narrow width (14mm) makes it suitable for on-body applications.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; body area networks; impedance matching; microstrip antennas; microwave antennas; multifrequency antennas; wireless LAN; ISM band; WLAN band; body centric wireless communication; electromagnetically-coupled feed; frequency 2.45 GHz; frequency 4.9 GHz; frequency 4.94 GHz to 4.99 GHz; ground plane; impedance matching; industrial scientific and medical band; parametric analyses; printed dual band antenna; radiation pattern; size 14 mm; wireless body area networks; wireless local area networks; Antenna feeds; Antenna radiation patterns; Biological system modeling; Wireless LAN; Body centric; Dual band; ISM band; On-body; Printed antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antenna Technology: "Small Antennas, Novel EM Structures and Materials, and Applications" (iWAT), 2014 International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2331-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWAT.2014.6958583

Filename

6958583