Robust and efficient integrated antenna with EBG-DGS enabled wide bandwidth for wearable medical device applications

Adel Y.I. Ashyap; Samsul Haimi Bin Dahlan; Zuhairiah Zainal Abidin; Muhammad Hashim Dahri; Huda A. Majid; Muhammad Ramlee Kamarudin; See Khee Yee; Mohd Haizal Jamaluddin; Akram Alomainy; Qammer H. Abbasi

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2981867

Robust and efficient integrated antenna with EBG-DGS enabled wide bandwidth for wearable medical device applications

Adel Y.I. Ashyap
, Samsul Haimi Bin Dahlan
, Zuhairiah Zainal Abidin
, Muhammad Hashim Dahri
, Huda A. Majid
, Muhammad Ramlee Kamarudin
, See Khee Yee
, Mohd Haizal Jamaluddin
, Akram Alomainy
, Qammer H. Abbasi

Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Queen Mary University of London
University of Glasgow

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Abstract

A compact wearable symmetrical e-slots antenna operated at 2.4 GHz was proposed for Medical Body Area Network applications. The design was printed onto a highly flexible fabric material. The final design topology was achieved by the integration of symmetrical e-slots antenna with an Electromagnetic Band-Gap (EBG) and Defected Ground Structure (DGS). The use of EBG was to isolate the body and antenna from each other whereas the DGS widened the bandwidth. This combination forms a novel and compact structure that broadens bandwidth. This broadened bandwidth makes the structure robust to deformation and loading in the human body. The design achieved a measured impedance bandwidth of 32.08 %, a gain of 6.45 dBi, a Front to Back Ration (FBR) of 15.8 dB, an efficiency of 72.3% and a SAR reduction of more than 90%. Hence, the integration of symmetrical e-slots antenna with EBG and etched DGS is a promising candidate for body-worn devices.

Original language	English
Article number	9042259
Pages (from-to)	56346-56358
Number of pages	13
Journal	IEEE Access
Volume	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2981867
State	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

AMC
EBG
Medical body-area network
Metamaterial
Metasurface
SAR
Textile antennas
Wearable textile

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Ashyap, A. Y. I., Dahlan, S. H. B., Abidin, Z. Z., Dahri, M. H., Majid, H. A., Kamarudin, M. R., Yee, S. K., Jamaluddin, M. H., Alomainy, A., & Abbasi, Q. H. (2020). Robust and efficient integrated antenna with EBG-DGS enabled wide bandwidth for wearable medical device applications. IEEE Access, 8, 56346-56358. Article 9042259. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2981867

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