Flexible Metasurface-Enabled Antenna For Wearable Medical Body-Area Network Application

Ali, Nazarudin (2016) Flexible Metasurface-Enabled Antenna For Wearable Medical Body-Area Network Application. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

In our modern world, technologies have evolved in order to provide better facilities for human kind. Recently, engineers have introduced a wearable antenna that can be used in medical applications. Implementation of wearable antenna in medical applications will help to increase the effectiveness in term of communication between those machines. However, wearable antenna is quite dangerous for human because radiation from that antenna can affect human skin thus create a bigger chance for human to have cancer. This paper will discussed about design of Flexible Metasurface-Enabled Antenna for Wearable Medical Body Area Network Application. Federal Communication Commission have introduced new frequency band which known as Medical Body Area Network (MBAN). MBAN operate in frequency range from 2.36 GHz until 2.4 GHz. Main objective of this paper is to investigate ways to reduce back radiation from wearable antenna. Metasurface can act as surface that can prevent human from radiation thus will increase performances of wearable antenna. This antenna was design by using CST software. This prototype antenna shows a great improvement in term of gain, bandwidth and front to back ratio. Furthermore, this prototype shows that metal backed metasurface help to reduce 95.3% specific absorption rate. In other word, this design is really suitable to be use as wearable antenna in medical applications.

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