An 868 MHz Bandage Type Antenna using Aluminum conductor and PDMS substrate

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2022-05-16
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Kumar, Sanjeev
Simorangkir, Roy B. V. B.
Gawade, Dinesh R.
Quinn, Aidan J.
O'Flynn, Brendan
Buckley, John L.
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This paper presents an 868 MHz ultra-high frequency (UHF) bandage-type antenna for wireless body sensor network applications. The proposed antenna has a modified planar rectangular patch antenna topology and is realized using aluminum metalization and a flexible polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrate. The performance characteristics of the antenna have been investigated through electromagnetic simulations and measurements on a human body phantom arm. The proposed antenna achieves a bandwidth of 11 MHz which is 57 % wider than the required bandwidth for the European LoRaWAN 868 MHz band operation. When compared to bandage-type Sub-GHz antennas reported in the literature, the proposed antenna exhibits desired gain and efficiency performance. Furthermore, the developed antenna demonstrates a low 10-g averaged SAR figure of 0.82 W/kg when 25 mW input power is supplied. The achieved impedance and radiation characteristics make the proposed antenna suitable for a wide range of body-worn wireless health monitoring applications.
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Aluminum antenna , Band-aid , Bandage-type antenna , PDMS , Sub-GHz , UHF , Wearable antenna
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Kumar, S., Simorangkir, R. B. V. B., Gawade, D. R., Quinn, A. J., O'Flynn, B. and Buckley, J. L. (2022) 'An 868 MHz Bandage Type Antenna using Aluminum conductor and PDMS substrate', iWAT2022: 17th International Workshop on Antenna Technology, Dublin, Ireland, 16 -18 May.
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