Wearable high gain low SAR antenna loaded with backed all-textile EBG for WBAN applications

Mohamed El Atrash; Omar F. Abdalgalil; Ibrahim S. Mahmoud; Mahmoud A. Abdalla; Sherif R. Zahran

Wearable high gain low SAR antenna loaded with backed all-textile EBG for WBAN applications

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Author(s): Mohamed El Atrash¹ ; Omar F. Abdalgalil¹ ; Ibrahim S. Mahmoud² ; Mahmoud A. Abdalla² ; Sherif R. Zahran³
- Affiliations: 1: Department of Electrical Systems Engineering , October University for Modern Sciences and Arts , Giza , Egypt ;
  2: Department of Electronic Engineering , Military Technical College , El-Qobba Bridge, Al Waili, Cairo , Egypt ;
  3: Department of Communication and Electrical Engineering Department , Arab Academy for Science and Technology , Cairo , Egypt
Source: Volume 14, Issue 8, 01 July 2020, p. 791 – 799
DOI: 10.1049/iet-map.2019.1089 , Print ISSN 1751-8725, Online ISSN 1751-8733

Received 10/12/2019, Accepted 17/03/2020, Revised 26/02/2020, Published 31/03/2020

A high gain, low specific absorption rate, oval-shaped monopole antenna is presented. It is backed by an all-textile 3 × 3 array of electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) unit cells. The antenna is printed on the thin Rogers ULTRALAM 3850 substrate, while the EBG array is composed of the conductive ShieledIT Super and dielectric substrate felt. The design operates at 2.45 GHz of the Industrial, Scientific, and Medical band. Due to the close distance between the extended grounds of the co-planar waveguide feeding configuration and the oval-shaped monopole antenna, current-coupling was achieved, leading to gain enhancement. However, with body-loading cases, resonance at 2.45 GHz was attained at a separation of 30 mm. By incorporating the EBG array, as an isolator, this issue was resolved. In free space and over a gap of 3 mm from the human body, gain enhancements by 2.68 and 11.54 dB were achieved at 2.45 GHz, respectively. Simulated and measured results are benchmarked. Furthermore, SAR simulation study showed reductions by 99.5%, averaged over 1 and 10 g of tissue.

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