Design of New Circularly Polarized Wearable Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Off-Body Communication in WBAN Applications

Autor: Usman Illahi, Javed Iqbal, Mohammad Ismail Sulaiman, Muhammad Mansoor Alam, Mazliham Mohd Su'Ud, Mohd Haizal Jamaluddin, Mohd Najib Mohd Yasin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: IEEE Access, Vol 7, Pp 150573-150582 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2947772
Popis: A unique circularly polarized (CP) compact wearable dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) has been proposed for off-body communication in wireless body area network (WBAN) applications. The design is singly fed and a new H-shaped conformal metal strip has been used to excite the DRA. A circular polarization over a bandwidth of ~9.6% (7.47-8.25 GHz) in conjunction with an impedance matching bandwidth of ~20.7% (6.95-8.68 GHz) has been offered by the antenna. A prototype has been fabricated and measured. The antenna has been tested both in free space and on-body environment. A robust performance has been offered by the antenna against human body lossy effects. The measured results agree very well with the simulated results.
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