Design of a all-fabric higher order mode circular patch antenna for Wireless body area network application

Author

Jinpil Tak ; Jaehoon Choi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Hanyang Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2014

fDate

4-6 March 2014

Firstpage

29

Lastpage

32

Abstract

A all-fabric higher order mode circular patch antenna for Wireless body area network is proposed. The proposed higher order mode patch antenna has the maximum radiation direction along the body surface for on-body communication in the industrial, scientific, and medical 2.45 GHz band. In order to accomplish the low profile property, the proposed antenna used shorting posts to excite TM₃₁ mode at 2.45 GHz ISM band. The proposed antenna was manufactured with fabric materials (conductive fabric, conductive thread, conductive epoxy and felt) and has a compact size. The proposed antenna has 28 mm (0.23 λ₀) of a radius and 2 mm (0.016 λ₀) of a thickness.

Keywords

body area networks; microstrip antennas; all-fabric higher order mode circular patch antenna; conductive epoxy; conductive fabric; conductive thread; fabric materials; felt; frequency 2.45 GHz; higher order mode patch antenna; maximum radiation direction; wireless body area network; Antenna radiation patterns; Broadband antennas; Dielectric resonator antennas; Fabrics; Phantoms; fabric antenna; monopole-like radiation; on-body antenna; patch antenna; wireless body area network (WBAN);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antenna Technology: "Small Antennas, Novel EM Structures and Materials, and Applications" (iWAT), 2014 International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2331-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWAT.2014.6958587

Filename

6958587