Title :
Planar antennas on Integrated Passive Device technology for biomedical applications
Author :
Diop, Oumy ; Ferrero, Fabien ; Diallo, Aliou ; Jacquemod, Gilles ; Laporte, Claire ; Ezzeddine, Hilal ; Luxey, Cyril
Author_Institution :
LEAT, Univ. Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne, France
Abstract :
In this paper, we present the design of electrically small antennas for biomedical application at 2.4 GHz. Performance of two different antennas built using the Integrated Passive Devices (IPD) technology from STMicroelectronics is investigated. Two monopoles miniaturized with the meandered technique are studied. Their quality factor Qz is calculated from their input impedance and compared with the quality factor limits for planar antennas given by Gustafsson. Therefore, we determine which configuration offers the best trade-off between radiation efficiency and quality factor Qz.
Keywords :
Q-factor; UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; biomedical communication; monopole antennas; planar antennas; STMicroelectronics; biomedical applications; electrically small antennas; frequency 2.4 GHz; integrated passive device technology; meandered technique; monopoles; planar antennas; quality factor; radiation efficiency; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Impedance; Microstrip; Q factor; Substrates; Transmission line measurements;
Conference_Titel :
Antenna Technology (iWAT), 2012 IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Tucson, AZ
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0036-0
DOI :
10.1109/IWAT.2012.6178651
