Compact, Low-profile and Robust Inversely E-shaped Antenna Integrated with EBG Structures for Wearable Application

Ashyap, A.; Abidin, Z.Z.; Dahlan, S. H.; Shah, S.M.; Yee, S.K.; Majid, H.A.; Qureshi, S.A.; See, Chan Hwang

Abstract

A compact and robust inversely E-shaped antenna (IESA) integrated with electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) is presented for wearable applications at 2.4 GHz. The EBG introduced in this paper to shield the antenna from body effects, due to its high natural dielectric. With EBG, the antenna shows good performance under bending and loading human body. The design has overall dimension of 46×46×2.4 mm3. The integration of antenna with EBG shows an improvement of a gain of 7.8 dBi and bandwidth of 27%. It also reduces the specific absorption rate (SAR) by more than 95.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: 2020 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD)
• Start Date: Sep 27, 2020
• End Date: Sep 29, 2020
• Acceptance Date: Jul 23, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Nov 16, 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Deposit Date: Jul 23, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 16, 2020
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Series ISSN: 2643-2447
• Book Title: 2020 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD)
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/SCOReD50371.2020.9250943
• Keywords: EBG, AMC, SAR, wearble textile antennas
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2677827