• DocumentCode
    1919779
  • Title

    A low profile microstrip patch antenna for body-centric communications at 2.45GHz band

  • Author

    Yeboah-Akowuah, Bright ; Kosmas, Panagiotis ; Yifan Chen

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Natural & Math. Sci., King´s Coll. London, London, UK
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    13-17 April 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    In this paper a low profile antenna for wireless body centric communication is presented. The antenna was designed to operate in the industrial, scientific and medical band 2.45GHz. A new design based on a circular slot inserted inside a semi-circular patch is introduced to tune the antenna to the required frequency. The performance of the antenna including the radiation pattern, reflection coefficient, and efficiency were investigated both in free space and on-body.
  • Keywords
    UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; body area networks; microstrip antennas; slot antennas; antenna radiation pattern; circular slot; free space; industrial, scientific and medical band; low profile microstrip patch antenna; reflection coefficient; semicircular patch; wireless body centric communication; Antenna radiation patterns; Phantoms; Resonant frequency; Slot antennas; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; antenna; body-centric communications; wearable;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2015 9th European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Lisbon
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7228175