Summary
International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation
2012
Session Number:POS2
Session:
Number:POS2-59
Design of Planar Antenna for Small Implantable Devices
Kohei Kawasaki, Masaharu Takahashi, Kazuyuki Saito, Koichi Ito,
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Publication Date:2012/10/29
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Recently, small implanted devices have been investigated with great interest for wireless communication tools. Especially, the devices are expected to apply for medical field in order to improve quality of life (QOL) of patients. In these systems, an antenna which mounted in the devices, implanted antenna, plays important role as a part of transmitting and receiving power. Therefore, the research on the antenna is very important for developing the implantable devices. In this report, an implanted antenna for monitoring of biological information is proposed. The antenna element has planar structure and can match an integrated circuit (IC) chip. The operating frequency is 2.45 GHz, one of the industrial-scientific-medical (ISM) bands. The input impedance and the radiation pattern of the antenna are analyzed by use of finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method.