A low-profile dipole array antenna for on-body communications

Author

Joongki Park ; Jinpil Tak ; Jaehoon Choi

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2014

fDate

4-6 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

4

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, a low-profile dipole array antenna for on-body communications in wireless body area network (WBAN) is proposed. The proposed antenna consists of eight planar dipole antenna elements. To obtain the monopole-like radiation pattern, eight dipole elements are placed symmetrically around z-axis. The simulated 10-dB return loss bandwidth of the antenna is wide enough to cover the 2.45 GHz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band. The proposed antenna has monopole-like radiation pattern with very thin thickness of only 1.6 mm.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; body area networks; dipole antenna arrays; ISM band; WBAN; frequency 2.45 GHz; industrial scientific and medical band; low-profile dipole array antenna; monopole-like radiation pattern; on-body communications; planar dipole antenna elements; wireless body area network; z-axis; Antenna arrays; Antenna radiation patterns; Arrays; Broadband antennas; Dipole antennas; Phantoms; Low-profile; Monopole-like radiation pattern; On-body;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electromagnetics (iWEM), 2014 IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Sapporo

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/iWEM.2014.6963607

Filename

6963607