Paper title: Small Planar Monopole UWB Wearable Antenna with Low SAR

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15/4/2014, 11:30PAM

Outline

Introduction Overview Background

Results and discussions

Antenna design

Antenna materials Antenna geometry

Antenna performance at free space. Antenna performance at the presence of the body SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE (SAR)

Conclusion

Introduction

Overview

UWB technology

Examples for existing communication standard

GPS (1.571.58 GHz) WCDMA (1.922.17 GHz) Bluetooth (2.4-2.48GHz) WLAN 802.11b/g (5.15-5.825) WLAN802.11b/g (2.4-2.4835) Wi-max (3.3-3.6GHz) Commercial UWB (3.110.6 GHz) Vehicle UWB radar system(22-29GHz)

 Body-worn antennas systems Applications Towards wearable UWB embedded into the so-called smart

clothes

Merging between wearable systems, (UWB) technology and textile technology. FCC 2002 Such flexible antennas can be easily integrated into a piece of clothing.

Medical Body Area Networks (MBAN)

Defense

Textile Technologies
Rescue

Entertaining

Healthcare

Issues Size: efficiency and capability of fabrication. BW: enhancement techniques and complexity. Wearable: material and safety Material: conductivity and capability of fabrication Safety: method (affordability) and better approximation

UWB Antennas

Wearable antennas Narrowband & wideband antennas Materials of prototypes

Specific Absorption Rate (SAR)

Planar UWB antennas

Methods

Design techniques

Tissues properties

Bandwidth enhancement

Performance

Phantoms

Proposed work

Work in paper

r = 1.76 loss tangent =0.078

Antenna design Material

Agilent 85070E Dielectric Probe Kit Display

Calibration
Measuring jeans properties Results

Geometry

Jeans

32 34 mm2

Probe calibrated in liquid

Cont..

Design optimization
Ground plane optimization

Feeding mechanism optimization

Results
Simulated and measured S11 parameter at free space

Simulated S11:2.8 GHz 11.6 GHz, fractional bandwidth (FB)=122% Measured S11:3.04 GHz 11.3 GHz, FB=109 %

Results cont..
E-plane (phi = 90)

Simulated radiation pattern at free space

H-plane (phi=0)

Performance the presence of phantoms

Body representation (physical & numerical)

homogenous (one dielectric cons) homogenous and layered body model (layered Rectangles) Inhomogeneous (Voxel) Full or partial?

Examples

Numerical phantom

These figures are based on Intel Xeon E5620 2.4 GHz CPU, 4Tesla 2070 GPUs. license (RM 5K )

Cont..

Body Tissue Dielectric Parameters Tool provided by FCC official website. skin = 2 mm, fat = 3 mm, muscle = 8 mm and bone = 10 mm. (2 ref
journals)

Results..

Simulated S11

E-plane

H-plane

SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE (SAR)

10-g SAR [W/kg] in the 4-layer body phantom

FCC restriction 4W/kg

Calculation time [s]:

18236 ~ 5-6hrs (one result)

Conclusion

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