Summary
International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation
2010
Session Number:2WC1
Session:
Number:2WC1-12
Analysis of Electrodes for Body-Centric Communications
Nozomi Haga, Kazuyuki Saito, Masaharu Takahashi, Koichi Ito,
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Publication Date:2010/11/23
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
In recent years, antennas and propagation for body-centric wireless communications have become an active area of research because of their various applications [1]?[5]. Whereas on-body communications at microwave frequency bands have widely been investigated especially in Europe, communications using low-frequency bands are also in researches’ and corporations’ interest especially in Japan [2]?[4]. In previous studies, the signal transmission mechanism was investigated by using numerical simulations and experiment [3]. In addition, equivalent circuit model of transmission channel was introduced [4]. However, there have been few reports in terms of operation mechanism and optimization of electrodes. In this study, we have numerically conducted some parameter studies to understand fundamental characteristics of the electrodes.