Miniaturized, meandered, and stacked MSA using accelerated design strategy for biomedical applications

Abstract

In this paper, a strategy to design implantable microstrip antenna used in biomedical telemetry has been suggested. A skin-implanted multilayer microstrip antenna containing ground, and meandered lower and upper radiating patch covered with a superstrate layer has been designed and simulated. A material with high permittivity such as Rogers 3010 has been used for substrate and superstrate layer. The volume of proposed antenna is 230 mm3. The size of proposed MSA is small enough to implant into human head-scalp. The designed antenna is resonating in the MICS (402-405 MHz) band and the 10 dB bandwidth is 23 MHz. The return loss is found as −18.274 dB at 402 MHz.