Shawkey, H.; Elsheakh, D. Multiband Dual-Meander Line Antenna for Body-Centric Networks’ Biomedical Applications by Using UMC 180 nm. Electronics2020, 9, 1350.
Shawkey, H.; Elsheakh, D. Multiband Dual-Meander Line Antenna for Body-Centric Networks’ Biomedical Applications by Using UMC 180 nm. Electronics 2020, 9, 1350.
Shawkey, H.; Elsheakh, D. Multiband Dual-Meander Line Antenna for Body-Centric Networks’ Biomedical Applications by Using UMC 180 nm. Electronics2020, 9, 1350.
Shawkey, H.; Elsheakh, D. Multiband Dual-Meander Line Antenna for Body-Centric Networks’ Biomedical Applications by Using UMC 180 nm. Electronics 2020, 9, 1350.
Abstract
This paper presents a compact on-chip antenna architecture for 5G body centric networks (BCNs) applications. A dual meander line (DML) integrated antenna consists of two stacked layers of two turns of meander lines and a ground metal layer. The DML structure decreases the resonant frequency, increases tuning bands and broadens the operating bandwidth to be a suitable choice for high data rate biomedical applications. The antenna’s performance is evaluated in both scenarios inside and outside the human body. The proposed antenna is fabricated using UMC180 nm CMOS technology with a total area of 1150µm×200µm, and operates at bands 22 GHz, 34 GHz, 44 GHz and 58 GHz with an operating bandwidth up to 2 GHz at impedance bandwidth ≤ 7.5 dB (VSWR≤2.5). The proposed antenna is simulated using high frequency structure simulator (HFSS) and shows good agreement between measured and simulated results.
Keywords
integrated antenna; meander line (ML); 5G technology; body centric networks (BCNs); WBAN; WSN; WPAN; UMC 180nm CMOS
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Other
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