Extremely low profile flexible antenna for medical body area networks
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.Citation
Malik N, Ur-Rehman M, Safdar G, Abbasi Q (2017) 'Extremely low profile flexible antenna for medical body area networks', 2017 IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) - Kuala Lumpar, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..Additional Links
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8251428Type
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9781538606407ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1109/APMC.2017.8251428
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