A low profile antenna for millimeter-wave body-centric applications
Abstract
Millimeter-Wave (mm-Wave) frequencies are a front runner contender for the next generation body-centric wireless communications. In this paper, the design of a very low-profile antenna is presented for body-centric applications operating in the mm-Wave frequency band centered at 60 GHz. The antenna has an overall size of 14 × 10.5 × 1.15 mm3 and is printed on a flexible printed circuit board. The performance of the antenna is evaluated in off-body, on-body, and body-to-body communication scenarios using a realistic numerical phantom and verified through measurements. The antenna has a bandwidth of 9.8 GHz and offers a gain of 10.6 dBi in off-body (free space) configuration, while 12.1 dBi in on-body configuration. It also achieves an efficiency of 74% in off-body and 63% in on-body scenario. The small and flexible structure of the antenna along with excellent impedance matching, broad bandwidth, high gain, and good efficiency makes it a suitable candidate to attain simultaneous data transmission/reception at mm-Wave frequencies for the 5G body-centric applications.Citation
Ur-Rehman M, Malik N, Yang X, Abbasi Q, Zhang Z, Zhao N (2017) 'A low profile antenna for millimeter-wave body-centric applications', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 65 (12), pp.6329-6337.Additional Links
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7918602Type
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0018-926Xae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1109/TAP.2017.2700897