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Reconfigurable Dual-Band Capsule-Conformal Antenna Array for In-Body Bioelectronics

Nikolayev, Denys  
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Skrivervik, Anja K.  
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Ho, John S.
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May 1, 2022
Ieee Transactions On Antennas And Propagation

Wireless in-body bioelectronics offer powerful biosensing and therapeutic capabilities. Efficient and robust in-body antenna designs are required to ensure a reliable through-body link, increase data rates, and reduce power budgets. This study proposes and demonstrates a pattern- and frequency-reconfigurable capsule-conformal antenna array that responds to the challenges of next-generation in-body bioelectronics. The array comprises two mirrored dual-band elements operating at 434 MHz and 2.45 GHz ISM bands. Tissue-matched dielectric loading of the array improves the radiation efficiency and ensures quasi tissue-independent operation for both bands. Due to the full ground plane, the antenna is shielded from the capsule payload. The achieved efficiencies are compared to the fundamental limitations and closely approach them. The realized gains are -28.9 and -18.6 dBi at 434 MHz and 2.45 GHz, respectively, when the array is placed in the center of a o100-mm diameter spherical phantom with muscle-equivalent properties. Using a single switch, the array can be reconfigured to adjust the angular position of the nulls in the radiation pattern in both bands thereby enabling synthesis of an effectively null-free omnidirectional pattern. The array prototypes are fabricated, and the impedance and far-field radiation patterns are characterized to validate the design in tissue-equivalent liquid phantoms.

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DOI
10.1109/TAP.2021.3138264
Web of Science ID

WOS:000791795600059

Author(s)
Nikolayev, Denys  
Skrivervik, Anja K.  
Ho, John S.
Zhadobov, Maxim
Sauleau, Ronan
Date Issued

2022-05-01

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

Published in
Ieee Transactions On Antennas And Propagation
Volume

70

Issue

5

Start page

3749

End page

3761

Subjects

Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

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Telecommunications

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Engineering

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antenna arrays

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antennas

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antenna theory

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antenna radiation patterns

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dielectrics

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microstrip

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loading

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bioelectronics

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biomedical telemetry

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conformal array

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dual-band antenna

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microstrip antenna

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implantable

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in-body

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ingestible

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reconfigurable antenna

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robustness

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implantable antenna

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impedance

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design

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