Open AccessDesign of Novel S-Shaped Quad-Band Antenna for MedRadio/WMTS/ISM Implantable Biotelemetry Applications
Author(s) -
Chih-Kuang Wu,
Tsung-Fu Chien,
ChinLung Yang,
Ching-Hsing Luo
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of antennas and propagation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.282
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1687-5877
pISSN - 1687-5869
DOI - 10.1155/2012/564092
Subject(s) - biotelemetry , antenna (radio) , telemetry , ism band , dimension (graph theory) , radio spectrum , computer science , electrical engineering , materials science , telecommunications , physics , engineering , mathematics , pure mathematics
A novel S-shaped quad-band planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) is proposed for implantable biotelemetry in the Medical Device Radiocommunications Service (MedRadio) band (401–406 MHz), Wireless Medical Telemetry Service (WMTS) band (1427–1432 MHz), and industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) bands (433-434 MHz and 2.4–2.4835 GHz). The proposed antenna reveals compact dimension of 254 mm3 ( mm3) and is composed of three substrates and a superstrate, which are constructed from an S-shaped radiator (layer 1) and two twin radiators of spiral structures (layer 2 and layer 3). The optimal antenna characteristics were measured in the ground pork skin, and the measured bandwidths are 150 MHz for the MedRadio and ISM bands (433 MHz), 52 MHz for the WMTS band, and 102 MHz for the ISM band (2.4 GHz), respectively. The characteristics of proposed antenna are enough to support the applications of implantable body area networks (BAN) for biotelemetry and can completely cover main available frequency bands of BAN for biotelemetry below 3 GHz.
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