Title :
A printed monopole and the use of simple phantoms for body-centric radio measurements at popular mobile communications frequencies
Author :
Edwards, R.M. ; Ma, L. ; Khattak, M.I. ; Villarreal, S.
Author_Institution :
Loughborough Electron. & Electr. Eng., Loughborough Univ., Loughborough, UK
Abstract :
Wearable antennas are best designed with a body perturbation in place and therefore need to be tuned on the body. However for a number of reasons humans are far from uniform in their tissue proportion. Fat, thin, tall and short are important however age, race and sex may also be important because of changes to the diffractive properties of the skins surface. The use of consistent human body phantoms has been thought to be a reliable alternative for measurements.
Keywords :
body area networks; microstrip antennas; mobile communication; monopole antennas; wearable antennas; body perturbation; body-centric radio measurements; diffractive properties; human body phantoms; mobile communications frequencies; printed monopole; wearable antennas; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Clothing; Materials; Microstrip antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Rome
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0250-1
