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Study of a Dipole Antenna in the Vicinity of Lossless and Lossy Medium for On-body Antenna Analysis

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In this paper, a detailed study of a dipole antenna in the close proximity of lossy and lossless human modeled structure is discussed. The main goal of the analysis is that which factors should be taken into account to design better on-body antennas and highlight the challenges associated with these kind of antennas in the vicinity of the lossy and lossless medium as compared to free space designs. The analysis is based on dipole separation distance from the equivalent human body structure. The antenna is analyzed in terms of shift in the frequency, reflection coefficient variation, input impedance and gain of the antenna. This analysis is very beneficial in terms of designing on body antennas and reliable wireless wearable devices. A full wave EM solver is used to demonstrate this study.

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This research is supported by “WiBEC” (Wireless In-Body Environment) project funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 675353.

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  1. Chair of RF Engineering, Communication Laboratory, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Mehrab Ramzan, Xiao Fang, Qiong Wang & Dirk Plettemeier

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Ramzan, M., Fang, X., Wang, Q., Plettemeier, D. (2019). Study of a Dipole Antenna in the Vicinity of Lossless and Lossy Medium for On-body Antenna Analysis. In: Fortino, G., Wang, Z. (eds) Advances in Body Area Networks I. Internet of Things. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02819-0_28

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