Extremely low profile flexible antenna for medical body area networks

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

University of Glasgow

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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.

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Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 260-263

Publication milestones

Published - 11/01/2018

Publication status

Published - 11/01/2018

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., United States

ISBN (Print)

9781538606407

External Publication IDs

handle.net: 10547/623874
Scopus: 85044713413

Host publication title

2017 IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC)

Access to documents

10.1109/APMC.2017.8251428

152844.pdf

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License:CC BY-NC-ND

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