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Design of Bio-implantable Antenna Using Metamaterial Substrate

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A compact microstrip patch antenna is proposed with metamaterial-based split-ring resonators (SRR) for biotelemetry application. This antenna works on industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band (2.4–2.45 GHz and 5.7–5.875 GHz). The proposed antenna was designed, fabricated, and tested using FR4 substrate, and a polyamide superstrate layer is used which has dielectric constant 4.3 and 3.5 respectively. The dimension of an antenna is 10 × 10 × 1.1mm3. The frequency range covered by an antenna is 2.45 GHz and 5.8 GHz with bandwidth 450 MHz and 350 MHz respectively. Antennas resonating frequency is 2.45 GHz and 5.75 GHz at which its return loss is − 31 dB and − 18.5 dB respectively inside the skin. For validation of results, antenna performance is tested inside vitro solution of skin mimicking liquid. This compact size miniaturized implantable antenna is suitable for biomedical applications.

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    Kasturi Sudam Patil &  Elizabeth Rufus

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Patil, K.S., Rufus, E. Design of Bio-implantable Antenna Using Metamaterial Substrate. Wireless Pers Commun 124, 1443–1455 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-021-09414-y

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