Wide slot antennas for UWB on-body communications

Author

Wen-Tron Shay ; Keng-Hsien Chen ; Jenn-Hwan Tarng

Author_Institution

Inst. of Commun. Eng., Nat. Chiao-Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

2014

fDate

6-11 July 2014

Firstpage

1817

Lastpage

1818

Abstract

In this paper, two modified ultra-wideband (UWB) wide slot antennas (WSAs) designed for antenna diversity in on-body communications are proposed. One antenna is a dual-polarization WSA (DPWSA) for polarization diversity. The other is a reduced-size WSA (RWSA), which is designed to be narrow in width and can be mounted on the side of a wireless device. Pattern diversity can be achieved by using two or more side-mounted RWSAs oriented in different directions. Both DPWSA and RWSA have broad impedance bandwidths and do not substantially increase the size of the original antenna or wireless device. The proposed diversity antennas can be used to mitigate the fading effects in on-body communications.

Keywords

body area networks; electromagnetic wave polarisation; slot antennas; ultra wideband antennas; wearable antennas; DPWSA; UWB on-body communications; antenna diversity; broad impedance bandwidth; dual-polarization WSA; fading effect mitigation; modified UWB WSA; modified UWB wide-slot antennas; modified ultrawideband wide-slot antennas; pattern diversity; polarization diversity; reduced-size WSA; side-mounted RWSA; wireless device; Bandwidth; Impedance; Planar arrays; Slot antennas; Ultra wideband antennas; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Memphis, TN

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3538-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2014.6905235

Filename

6905235