Broadband directional antenna on an EBG structure for body-centric wireless communication

Author

Chamok, Nowrin H. ; Ali, Mohammod

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

22-26 March 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A thin broadband textile dipole antenna on an EBG structure is proposed for body-centric wireless communications. The proposed antenna (44 × 44 × 2.5 mm³) leverages a Non-Uniform Aperiodic (NUA) EBG surface as its reflector and reduces the overall thickness to 2.5 mm for operation between 6-9.75 GHz. The proposed antenna has 48% bandwidth, 4-8 dBi of gain and high Front to Back ratio (F/B).

Keywords

biomedical communication; broadband antennas; dipole antennas; directive antennas; photonic band gap; reflector antennas; textiles; EBG structure; NUA EBG surface; body-centric wireless communication; broadband directional antenna; frequency 6 GHz to 9.75 GHz; high front to back ratio; nonuniform aperiodic EBG surface; reflector; size 2.5 mm; thin broadband textile dipole antenna; Broadband antennas; Broadband communication; Dipole antennas; Fabrics; Metamaterials; Periodic structures; Surface impedance; Antenna; Body-worn; Broadband; Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG); Textile;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Computational Electromagnetics (ACES), 2015 31st International Review of Progress in

Conference_Location

Williamsburg, VA

Type

conf

Filename

7109645