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Compact and Low Profile Planar Antenna with Novel Metastructure for Wearable MBAN Devices

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Two integrated antenna designs are presented to work in Medical Body Area Network Band. The upper antenna is rectangular microstrip patch antenna in both designs. The lower layer for first design is novel truncated metastructure with circular geometry. The lower layer for second design is truncated 2 × 2 array of circular elements. The final integrated antenna in both designs has very compact dimensions of 0.42λ0 × 0.42λ0 × 0.013λ0 The primary purpose of designing the antenna is to achieve low specific absorption rate (SAR) while maintaining its compactness and robustness. Significant reduction in SAR is achieved making the antennas good candidates for wearable devices.

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We are thankful to Electronics and Communication Engineering department of University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh for allowing us to use CST microwave studio in their Research Lab to carry out this research.

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  1. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Punjab, India

    Nancy Ramanpreet

  2. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

    Munish Rattan

  3. Department of Information Management and Coordination, NITTTR, Chandigarh, India

    Sandeep Singh Gill

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Ramanpreet, N., Rattan, M. & Gill, S.S. Compact and Low Profile Planar Antenna with Novel Metastructure for Wearable MBAN Devices. Wireless Pers Commun 118, 3335–3347 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-021-08182-z

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