3D Printed Miniaturized UWB Antenna for Wireless Body Area Network

Ernesto E. Lopez; Aida Garcia Lopez; Rohit Chandra; Anders J Johansson

doi:10.1109/EuCAP.2014.6902481

3D Printed Miniaturized UWB Antenna for Wireless Body Area Network

Ernesto E. Lopez, Aida Garcia Lopez, Rohit Chandra, Anders J Johansson

Department of Electrical and Information Technology

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A wireless body area network (WBAN) is a network of compact low power devices that are either wearable or implantable. A compact antenna with suitable radiation pattern and polarization is useful for WBAN applications. Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology can be used in WBAN applications that require high data rates. This paper present a small wearable (15x17x17 mm) UWB antenna designed and optimized in a FDTD full wave simulator. The simulated -10 dB impedance bandwidth is from 4.8 GHz to 29.8 GHz in free space. The lower -10 dB cut-off frequency shifts down to 3.5~GHz when placed on the body. The antenna is vertically polarized with respect to the body which makes it a suitable candidate for on-body to on-body UWB WBAN applications. The antenna was fabricated by 3D printing technology. The measured lower cut-off frequency for an on-body case was found to be 3.6 GHz and the antenna was well-matched in rest of the UWB band.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2014 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
Publisher	IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	3090-3093
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCAP.2014.6902481
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	8th European Conference on antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2014 - The Hague, The Netherlands, The Hague, Netherlands Duration: 2014 Apr 6 → 2014 Apr 11 Conference number: 8

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ISSN (Print)	2164-3342

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Conference	8th European Conference on antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2014
Abbreviated title	EuCAP 2014
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	The Hague
Period	2014/04/06 → 2014/04/11

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Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

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UWB antenna
miniaturized antenna
WBAN
3D printing

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E. Lopez, E, Garcia Lopez, A, Chandra, R & Johansson, AJ 2014, 3D Printed Miniaturized UWB Antenna for Wireless Body Area Network. in 2014 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP). IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 3090-3093, 8th European Conference on antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2014, The Hague, Netherlands, 2014/04/06. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCAP.2014.6902481

3D Printed Miniaturized UWB Antenna for Wireless Body Area Network. / E. Lopez, Ernesto; Garcia Lopez, Aida; Chandra, Rohit et al.
2014 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP). IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014. p. 3090-3093.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Paper in conference proceeding › peer-review

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3D Printed Miniaturized UWB Antenna for Wireless Body Area Network

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