Miniaturized Dual-Band and Dual-Polarized Antenna for MBAN Applications

Xiao-Qi Zhu; Yong-Xin Guo; Wen Wu

doi:10.1109/TAP.2016.2556701

Miniaturized Dual-Band and Dual-Polarized Antenna for MBAN Applications

Xiao-Qi Zhu
, Yong-Xin Guo^*
, Wen Wu

^*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel miniaturized antenna with a dual-band resonance covering the medical body-area network (MBAN) and a 5.8-GHz industrial scientific medical band. Owning to its stacked-patch structure, the proposed antenna generates an omnidirectional radiation pattern with vertical polarization and a broadside radiation pattern with circular polarization at the two bands, respectively, thus fulfilling the requirements for both on- and off-body channels simultaneously. This antenna is designed on a multilayer tissue model, and is then validated on the Gustav voxel model. The footprint of the proposed antenna is only 0.18λ₀ × 0.18λ₀ × 0.04λ₀. The proposed design is fabricated and its performance is investigated in various scenarios. When measured on the pork trunk, impedance bandwidths of 2.8% at the lower band and 9.0% at the upper band are achieved, fully covering the two bands. Besides, the transmission performance at the MBAN band is also studied by conducting measurements on the human body, and the measurement results agree well with the simulation. The obtained robust antenna performance reveals that the proposed design is suitable for MBAN applications. © 2016 IEEE.

Original language	English
Article number	7457340
Pages (from-to)	2805-2814
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume	64
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2016.2556701
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2016
Externally published	Yes

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dual-polarized antenna
medical body-area network (MBAN)
on-body antenna

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