Miniaturised UWB antenna for a Wireless Body Area Network

Hraga, H.I.; See, C.H.; Abd-Alhameed, R.A.; McEwan, Neil J.

Abstract

A miniaturised modified planar inverted-F UWB antenna with a broadband rectangular feeding structure, for a Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN), is proposed. The antenna is designed to cover a wide frequency range from 3 GHz to 13 GHz. Details of the proposed antenna design and measured results are presented and discussed. To validate the results, a prototype was fabricated and tested. The measured and computed results are in good agreement. The overall size of the antenna including the ground plane is 50 mm × 50 mm × 8 mm, making it suitable to fit into a standard enclosure of a UWB wireless transceiver.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: 2012 Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference (LAPC)
• Start Date: Nov 12, 2012
• End Date: Nov 13, 2012
• Acceptance Date: Sep 24, 2012
• Online Publication Date: Jan 7, 2013
• Publication Date: 2012-11
• Deposit Date: Jun 12, 2019
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Pages: 1-4
• ISBN: 9781467322188
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/lapc.2012.6402977
• Keywords: UWB antenna, Wireless Body Area Network, Ultra wideband antennas, Antenna measurements, Antenna radiation patterns, Microwave antennas
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1871396