Volume 8, Issue 4, October 2014, Pages 1770–1781
Md. Ashif Islam Oni1 and M. Tanseer Ali2
1 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, American International University-Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, American International University-Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Original language: English
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A compact, low-profile, coplanar waveguide fed elliptical patch UWB antenna is proposed in this paper, and then imposed on human body environment for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) applications. A comparison of performance of the designed antenna is done in free space and modeled layered human body tissue phantom in terms of reflection co-efficient, radiation pattern and voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR). The antenna is designed in such a way that it can give good performance over free space as well as over modeled human tissue phantom without any prerequisite. The antenna provides a wide usable fractional bandwidth of more than 143% (2.39-14.43 GHz) with substrate permittivity ?r =3.38 which is a RO4000
Author Keywords: Healthcare Monitor, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN), Coplanar waveguide, Elliptical Patch Antenna, Ultra-Wideband (UWB), Human tissue.
Md. Ashif Islam Oni1 and M. Tanseer Ali2
1 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, American International University-Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, American International University-Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
A compact, low-profile, coplanar waveguide fed elliptical patch UWB antenna is proposed in this paper, and then imposed on human body environment for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) applications. A comparison of performance of the designed antenna is done in free space and modeled layered human body tissue phantom in terms of reflection co-efficient, radiation pattern and voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR). The antenna is designed in such a way that it can give good performance over free space as well as over modeled human tissue phantom without any prerequisite. The antenna provides a wide usable fractional bandwidth of more than 143% (2.39-14.43 GHz) with substrate permittivity ?r =3.38 which is a RO4000
Author Keywords: Healthcare Monitor, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN), Coplanar waveguide, Elliptical Patch Antenna, Ultra-Wideband (UWB), Human tissue.
How to Cite this Article
Md. Ashif Islam Oni and M. Tanseer Ali, “Design of A Compact, Low-Profile, Elliptical Patch UWB Antenna and Performance Analysis in Vicinity of Human Layered Tissue Model for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) Applications,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 1770–1781, October 2014.