Small Uni-Planar Antenna Suitable for Body Wearable Applications

Author

Waterhouse, Rod ; Novak, Dalma

Author_Institution

LLC, Glen Burnie, MD

fYear

2006

fDate

23-25 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

We present a small, low cost printed antenna suitable for wireless systems operating below 1 GHz. The antenna is based on a meander line slot loaded with a short circuit and is fed by a co-planar waveguide (CPW) transmission line to provide a uni-planar solution. We have prototyped and tested a 430 MHz version of the antenna and the resulting radiator provides a near omni-directional radiation pattern with a bandwidth of approximately 5%. We also explore versions of the antenna that can be integrated into a platform suitable for body wearable applications

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; coplanar transmission lines; microstrip antennas; mobile radio; planar antennas; 430 MHz; CPW transmission line; coplanar waveguide; meander line slot; omni-directional radiation pattern; printed antenna; short circuit; uniplanar antenna; wireless systems; Antenna radiation patterns; Circuit testing; Coplanar transmission lines; Coplanar waveguides; Costs; Distributed parameter circuits; Loaded antennas; Prototypes; Slot antennas; Transmission line antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2006. MILCOM 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0617-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0618-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2006.302075

Filename

4086466