A small tunable and wearable planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA)

Author

Lin, C.H. ; Li, Z. ; Ito, K. ; Takahashi, M. ; Saito, K.

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Eng., Chiba Univ., Chiba, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

26-30 March 2012

Firstpage

742

Lastpage

745

Abstract

Body-centric wireless communications (BCWCs) have received increasing attention due to its potential application in areas such as E-health systems, home care, security, and entertainment. A compact and low-profile wearable planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) with tuning function is presented for BCWCs in this paper. A two-thirds muscle-equivalent phantom is used to model the human´s arm. By tuning the proper capacitance of the proposed antenna, the industrial, scientific and medical (ISM, 2.40-2.48 GHz), wireless broadband (WiBro, 2.3-2.39 GHz) and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS, Rx 2.1-2.17 GHz) and meanwhile lower band can also cover 950-956 MHz.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; biomedical communication; planar inverted-F antennas; security; E-health systems; PIFA; UMTS; Universal Mobile Telecommunications System; WiBro; body-centric wireless communications; entertainment; frequency 2.1 GHz to 2.17 GHz; frequency 2.3 GHz to 2.39 GHz; frequency 2.40 GHz to 2.48 GHz; home care; muscle-equivalent phantom; security; small tunable planar inverted-F antenna; tuning function; wearable planar inverted-F antenna; Antenna radiation patterns; Broadband antennas; Phantoms; Resonant frequency; Tuning; Body-centric wireless communications; PIFA; tuning function; wearable;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 2012 6th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Prague

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0918-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0919-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6206554

Filename

6206554