Design of meander line wearable antenna

Author

George, Geordie ; Thiripurasundari, Nagarjun R. D. ; Poonkuzhali, R. ; Alex, Zachariah C.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng. [SENSE], VIT Univ., Vellore, India

fYear

2013

fDate

11-12 April 2013

Firstpage

1190

Lastpage

1193

Abstract

A dual band meander line wearable antenna is designed at the operating frequencies of 406 MHz and 850 MHz. Textile fabric materials were used as the antenna substrate and copper is used as radiating element. Four different types of antenna substrates were put into study. SAR (specific absorption rate) is calculated for the designed antenna using the human body model from MRI and RT scan images. The calculated SAR falls well within the values prescribed by the standards.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; biomedical MRI; body area networks; electromagnetic wave absorption; fabrics; multifrequency antennas; wearable antennas; MRI; RT scan image; SAR; antenna radiating element; antenna substrate; dual band antenna; frequency 406 MHz; frequency 850 MHz; human body model; meander line wearable antenna design; specific absorption rate; textile fabric material; Biomedical monitoring; Dipole antennas; Dual band; Substrates; Textiles; Voxel Model; Wearable antenna; meander line antenna; specific absorption rate (SAR); textile substrates;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information & Communication Technologies (ICT), 2013 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

JeJu Island

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5759-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICT.2013.6558281

Filename

6558281