Fiber antenna for wireless body area networks

Author

Nikoubin, Tooraj ; Garipally, Murari ; Thien-An Nguyen ; Zheng Wang ; Mohammad, Saed ; Changzhi Li

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

25-28 Jan. 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

In this paper, a novel monopole antenna based on a special type of fiber is fabricated and measured around the 2.4 GHz frequency band. The measured return loss and radiation pattern are compared with those of a conventional monopole antenna made by copper wires. This novel concept of device based on fiber is a good candidate for wireless body area networks for its ease of flexible-antenna formation and potential for on-body proximity sensing.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; body area networks; monopole antennas; optical fibre networks; wires (electric); copper wires; fiber antenna; flexible-antenna formation; frequency 2.4 GHz; measured return loss; monopole antenna; on-body proximity sensing; radiation pattern; wireless body area networks; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; body area network; monopole antennas; optical fiber; return loss;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems (BioWireleSS), 2015 IEEE Topical Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIOWIRELESS.2015.7152121

Filename

7152121