A stacked UWB antenna with unidirectional radiation patterns for WBAN applications

Author

Changxing Yang ; Min Zhu ; Cheng Zhou ; Deshuang Zhao

Author_Institution

Sch. of Phys. Electron., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol., Chengdu, China

fYear

2014

Firstpage

483

Lastpage

484

Abstract

Directional antenna is very popular and useful in wireless body area network (WBAN) applications. This paper proposes a compact stacked UWB antenna with unidirectional wide-beam patterns. By appropriately introducing an open reflection cavity (ORC) and a parasitic E-shaped patch (PEP), the proposed antenna achieves good impedance bandwidth of 3.52GHz-10.64GHz, considerable gains and high front-to-rear ratio, which make it avoid near-body performance degradation and reduce specific absorption rate (SAR) of human body. As a compact antenna with dimensions of 50*54*15mm³, it is very promising for WBAN applications especially in the wireless off-body UWB green communications.

Keywords

absorption; antenna radiation patterns; body area networks; directive antennas; microwave antennas; reflector antennas; ultra wideband antennas; ultra wideband communication; ORC; PEP; WBAN applications; bandwidth 3.52 GHz to 10.64 GHz; directional antenna; human body SAR; open reflection cavity; parasitic E-shaped patch; specific absorption rate; stacked UWB antenna; unidirectional wide-beam radiation patterns; wireless body area network applications; wireless off-body UWB green communication; Antenna radiation patterns; Cavity resonators; Reflection; Reflector antennas; Slot antennas; Ultra wideband antennas; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Problem-Solving (ICCP), 2014 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4246-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCPS.2014.7062327

Filename

7062327