A Low Profile UWB Antenna for WBAN Applications

Deqiang Yang; Jianzhong Hu; Sihao Liu

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2819163

IEEE Access (Jan 2018)

A Low Profile UWB Antenna for WBAN Applications

Deqiang Yang,
Jianzhong Hu,
Sihao Liu

Affiliations

Deqiang Yang: School of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Jianzhong Hu: School of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Sihao Liu: ORCiD; School of Materials and Energy, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2819163
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 6
pp. 25214 – 25219

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In this paper, we propose a low-profile ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna for wireless body area networks. The proposed antenna is low-weight and easy to produce by printed circuit board manufacturing. Optimized shape of the radiation patch and shorted top-loading patches are introduced to broaden the bandwidth and reduce the profile of the antenna. The height of the antenna is 0.05λ0, where λ0 is the free-space wavelength at the lowest operating frequency. The simulated and measured results show that an enhanced impedance bandwidth of about 162% in the range of 2.5 to 24 GHz (S11 <; -10 dB) is achieved. Besides, the influence of the human body to the proposed antenna is minimal. The time-domain behavior of the low-profile UWB antenna is tested, and the results show a satisfactory performance in transmitting and receiving pulse signals.

Published in IEEE Access

ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639

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