Pattern Switching Compact Patch Antenna for On-body and Off-body Communications at 2.45 GHz
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01/03/2009
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http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70349880738&partnerID=8YFLogxK |
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eng |
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info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
| Fonte |
Chandran , A R , Conway , G A & Scanlon , W G 2009 , Pattern Switching Compact Patch Antenna for On-body and Off-body Communications at 2.45 GHz . in 2009 3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation . European Conference on Antennas and Propagation. Proceedings , pp. 2055-2057 , 3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation , Berlin , Germany , 1-1 March . |
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contributionToPeriodical |
| Resumo |
The ability to switch between propagating modes is important for body-centric applications such as medical body area networks where a single node may need to be able to optimise communications for either on-body sensor links or off-body links to the wider network. Therefore, we present a compact 2.45 GHz active mode-switching wearable antenna for both on-body and off-body wireless communications. The single-layer patch antenna was pattern-switched using shorting pins and had an impedance bandwidth of 253 MHz and 217 MHz for the on-body and off-body radiating modes, respectively. An efficiency of 57 % and 56.8 % was obtained for on-body and off-body mode respectively when placed in close proximity to a phantom that represents a muscle issue at 2.45 GHz. |
