@inproceedings{0ab060a92dd14ddaacf856ddc3085366,
title = "Extremely low profile flexible antenna for medical body area networks",
abstract = "Medical Body Area Networks (MBAN) are widely used in healthcare systems employing in- and on-body applications. An extremely low profile patch antenna for the MBANs is presented in this paper. The antenna consists of two flexible printed circuit boards (FPCB) separated by an air gap and uses a rectangular radiating patch with four slots. Two variants of the antenna having single and dual band operation are discussed. The single band antenna operates at 2.4 GHz while the dual band antenna works at frequencies of 2.4 GHz and 4.3 GHz. Both versions of the proposed antenna offer good bandwidth, high gain and radiation coverage for the MBAN applications.",
keywords = "Flexible PCB, Low profile antenna, Medical BAN, Wearable applications",
author = "Malik, \{Nabeel Ahmed\} and Masood Ur-Rehman and Safdar, \{Ghazanfar Ali\} and Abbasi, \{Qammer H.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 IEEE.; 2017 IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, APMC 2017 ; Conference date: 13-11-2017 Through 16-11-2017",
year = "2017",
month = jun,
day = "28",
doi = "10.1109/APMC.2017.8251428",
language = "English",
series = "Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference Proceedings, APMC",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "260--263",
editor = "Idnin Pasya",
booktitle = "2017 Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, APMC 2017 - Proceedings",
address = "United States",
}