A broadband flexible implantable loop antenna with complementary split ring resonators

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 14, Issue , 2015, Pages 1322-1325

  Alrawashdeh, Rula S ^a   Huang, Yi ^a   Kod, Muayad ^a   Sajak, Aznida Abu Bakar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Implantable antenna; ISM band antenna; MedRadio band antenna; specific absorption rate

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSMISSION; LOOP ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; RESONATORS; RING GAGES;

COMPLEMENTARY SPLIT RING RESONATORS; IMPLANTABLE ANTENNAS; ISM BANDS; MEDRADIO; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENTS; WIRELESS DATA TRANSMISSION; WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84933050347     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2015.2403952     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. ITU, "Sharing between the Meteorological Aids Service and Medical Implant Communications Systems (MICS) operating in the Mobile Service in the Frequency Band 401-406 MHz," International Telecommunications Union Recommendation (ITU-R) Std. ITU-R Recommendation SA 1346, 2001 [Online]. Available: http://www.itu.int
2. F. J. Huang et al., "Rectenna application of miniaturized implantable antenna design for triple-band biotelemetry communication," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 59, no. 7, pp. 2646-2653, Jul. 2011.
3. R. Alrawashdeh, Y. Hunag, and P. Cao, "A flexible loop antenna for total knee replacement implants in the MedRadio band," in Proc. LAPC, Loughborough, U.K., 2013, pp. 225-228.
4. R. Alrawashdeh, Y. Huang, and P. Cao, "Flexible meandered loop antenna for implants in the MedRadio and ISM bands," Electron. Lett., vol. 49, no. 24, pp. 1515-1517, Nov. 2013.
5. M. L. Scarpello and D. Kurup et al., "Design of an implantable slot dipole conformal flexible antenna for biomedical applications," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 59, no. 10, pp. 3556-3564, Oct. 2011.
6. C. Schmidt et al., "Broadband UHF implanted 3-D conformal antenna design and characterization for in-off body wireless links," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 1433-1444, Mar. 2014.
7. X. Cheng, D. Senior, C. Kim, and W. K. Yoon, "A compact omnidirectional self-packaged patch antenna with complementary split-ring resonator loading for wireless endoscope applications," IEEE Antennas Wireless Propag. Lett., vol. 10, pp. 1532-1535, 2011.
8. F. Merli, "Implantable antennas for biomedical applications," Ph.D dissertation, Department of Electrical Engineering, EPFL Univ, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2011.
9. A. Kiourti and K. Nikita, "Miniature scalp-implantable antennas for telemetry in the MICS and ISM bands: Design, safety considerations and link budget analysis," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 60, no. 8, pp. 3568-3575, Aug. 2012.
10. S. Best and J. Morrow, "On the significance of current vector alignment in establishing the resonant frequency of small space-filling wire antennas," IEEE Antennas Wireless Propag. Lett., vol. 2, pp. 201-204, 2003.
11. J. D. Baena et al., "Equivalent-circuit models for split-ring resonators and complementary split-ring resonators coupled to planar transmission lines," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 1451-1461, Apr. 2005.
12. T. Wittig, "SAR overview," 2007 [Online]. Available: https://www.cst. com/Content/Events/UGM2007/05-Wittig.pdf
13. S. Pasakawee, "Left-handed metamaterials realized by complementary split-ring resonators for RF and microwave circuit applications," Ph.D dissertation, Univ. Manchester, Manchester, U.K., 2012.