Extremely low profile flexible antenna for medical body area networks

Nabeel Malik; Masood Ur-Rehman; Ghazanfar Safdar; Qammer Hussain Abbasi

doi:10.1109/APMC.2017.8251428

Extremely low profile flexible antenna for medical body area networks

Nabeel Malik
, Masood Ur-Rehman
, Ghazanfar Safdar
, Qammer Hussain Abbasi

Institute for Research in Applicable Computing (IRAC)

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Abstract

Medical Body Area Networks (MBAN) are widely used in healthcare systems employing in- and on-body applications. An extremely low profile patch antenna for the MBANs is presented in this paper. The antenna consists of two flexible printed circuit boards (FPCB) separated by an air gap and uses a rectangular radiating patch with four slots. Two variants of the antenna having single and dual band operation are discussed. The single band antenna operates at 2.4 GHz while the dual band antenna works at frequencies of 2.4 GHz and 4.3 GHz. Both versions of the proposed antenna offer good bandwidth, high gain and radiation coverage for the MBAN applications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	nan
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	260-263
ISBN (Print)	9781538606407
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/APMC.2017.8251428
Publication status	Published - 11 Jan 2018
Event	2017 IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) - Kuala Lumpar Duration: 13 Nov 2017 → 16 Nov 2017

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Conference	2017 IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC)
City	Kuala Lumpar
Period	13/11/17 → 16/11/17
Other	2017 IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) (13/11/2017-16/11/2017, Kuala Lumpar)

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Flexible PCB
Low profile antenna
Medical BAN
Wearable applications

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