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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Flexible Antenna with Circular/Linear Polarization for Wideband Biomedical Wireless Communication.

Mohammed E Yassin, Khaled F A Hussein, Qammer H Abbasi, Muhammad A Imran, Shaimaa A Mohassieb

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 authors.

Mohammed E YassinElectronics and Communications Engineering Department, Akhbar Elyom Academy, 6th of October City 12573, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0001-8894-9525
Khaled F A HusseinMicrowave Engineering Department, Electronics Research Institute (ERI), Cairo 11843, Egypt.
Qammer H AbbasiJames Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7097-9969
Muhammad A ImranJames Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4743-9136
Shaimaa A MohassiebElectronics and Communications Engineering Department, Akhbar Elyom Academy, 6th of October City 12573, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0003-4982-6471

Funding

Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellowship and EPSRC grant IF2223-201 and EP/R511705/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A wideband low-profile radiating G-shaped strip on a flexible substrate is proposed to operate as biomedical antenna for off-body communication. The antenna is designed to produce circular polarization over the frequency range 5-6 GHz to communicate with WiMAX/WLAN antennas. Furthermore, it is designed to produce linear polarization over the frequency range 6-19 GHz for communication with the on-body biosensor antennas. It is shown that an inverted G-shaped strip produces circular polarization (CP) of the opposite sense to that produced by G-shaped strip over the frequency range 5-6 GHz. The antenna design is explained and its performance is investigated through simulation, as well as experimental measurements. This antenna can be viewed as composed of a semicircular strip terminated with a horizontal extension at its lower end and terminated with a small circular patch through a corner-shaped strip extension at its upper end to form the shape of "G" or inverted "G". The purpose of the corner-shaped extension and the circular patch termination is to match the antenna impedance to 50 Ω over the entire frequency band (5-19 GHz) and to improve the circular polarization over the frequency band (5-6 GHz). To be fabricated on only one face of the flexible dielectric substrate, the antenna is fed through a co-planar waveguide (CPW). The antenna and the CPW dimensions are optimized to obtain the most optimal performance regarding the impedance matching bandwidth, 3dB Axial Ratio (AR) bandwidth, radiation efficiency, and maximum gain. The results show that the achieved 3dB-AR bandwidth is 18% (5-6 GHz). Thus, the proposed antenna covers the 5 GHz frequency band of the WiMAX/WLAN applications within its 3dB-AR frequency band. Furthermore, the impedance matching bandwidth is 117% (5-19 GHz) which enables low-power communication with the on-body sensors over this wide range of the frequency. The maximum gain and radiation efficiency are 5.37 dBi and 98%, respectively. The overall antenna dimensions are 25 × 27 × 0.13 mm3 and the bandwidth-dimension ratio (BDR) is 1733.

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CommunicationWireless TechnologyElectric ImpedanceEquipment Designcircular polarized antennacompact antennaflexible antennawideband antenna

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