Title :
Bow-tie shaped meander slot on-body antenna
Author :
Chen Yang ; Guang Hua ; Ping Lu ; Houxing Zhou
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Southeast Univ., Nanjing, China
Abstract :
In this paper a meander slot on-body antenna is proposed for the use of wireless body area network. In order to reduce the human body radiation, metallic foil has been used on the back of the antenna. To realize miniaturized antenna having large bandwidth, the bow-tie meander slot construction is combined in this paper. A hybrid-ring coupler is used to provide phase difference. Results show that the proposed antenna has 460MHz bandwidth on the central frequency of 17GHz.
Keywords :
UHF antennas; body area networks; bow-tie antennas; microwave antennas; slot antennas; waveguide couplers; bandwidth 460 MHz; bow-tie shaped meander slot on-body antenna; frequency 17 GHz; human body radiation reduction; hybrid-ring coupler; metallic foil; phase difference; wireless body area network; Antenna measurements; Couplers; Microwave antennas; Slot antennas; Ultra wideband antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas & Propagation (ISAP), 2013 Proceedings of the International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Nanjing
Print_ISBN :
978-7-5641-4279-7
