TY - GEN
T1 - Low-Profile Wearable Wideband Antenna with High Gain Based on Franklin Array for Future 5G Wireless Body Area Networks
AU - Mirzaee, Milad
AU - Tavassolian, Negar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/7/5
Y1 - 2020/7/5
N2 - A conformal wideband array antenna with low-profile, high gain, and full-backed ground plane is designed based on Franklin array antenna (FAA) for wearable applications. The antenna is designed to operate at the licensed 28-GHz band for 5G wireless networks recommended by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. The bandwidth of the designed antenna also covers the 33-GHz band for satellite communication and navigation applications. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed antenna has the widest matching bandwidth amongst reported modified FAAs. Numerical studies are performed on the performance of the designed antenna under structural deformation such as bending and human body integration to corroborate its potential for wearable applications. It was observed that the wideband performance of the antenna is well preserved during structural deformation as well as human body integration with no significant variations. The proposed antenna features a compact size with dimensions of 80\times 22\times 0.25 mm3 and exhibits a matched bandwidth of 24.43% (27.3 GHz to 34.9 GHz), with a gain value of 14.02 dBi at 28 GHz and 15.2 dBi at 31.4 GHz.
AB - A conformal wideband array antenna with low-profile, high gain, and full-backed ground plane is designed based on Franklin array antenna (FAA) for wearable applications. The antenna is designed to operate at the licensed 28-GHz band for 5G wireless networks recommended by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. The bandwidth of the designed antenna also covers the 33-GHz band for satellite communication and navigation applications. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed antenna has the widest matching bandwidth amongst reported modified FAAs. Numerical studies are performed on the performance of the designed antenna under structural deformation such as bending and human body integration to corroborate its potential for wearable applications. It was observed that the wideband performance of the antenna is well preserved during structural deformation as well as human body integration with no significant variations. The proposed antenna features a compact size with dimensions of 80\times 22\times 0.25 mm3 and exhibits a matched bandwidth of 24.43% (27.3 GHz to 34.9 GHz), with a gain value of 14.02 dBi at 28 GHz and 15.2 dBi at 31.4 GHz.
KW - 5G networks
KW - Franklin array antenna
KW - millimeter-wave antennas
KW - wearable antennas
KW - wideband antennas
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U2 - 10.1109/IEEECONF35879.2020.9329727
DO - 10.1109/IEEECONF35879.2020.9329727
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85101604551
T3 - 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting, IEEECONF 2020 - Proceedings
SP - 449
EP - 450
BT - 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting, IEEECONF 2020 - Proceedings
T2 - 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting, IEEECONF 2020
Y2 - 5 July 2020 through 10 July 2020
ER -