A Compact Dual-Band Metasurface-Based Antenna for Wearable Medical Body-Area Network Devices

Table 1

Comparison of the proposed integrated antenna with previous works.

Ref.	Volume (mm^3)	B.W (GHz)	Gain (dBi)	Material
[22]	102 × 68 × 3.6	4.3–5.9	6.12	Pellon
[19]	38 × 50 × 3.048	5.64–5.8	5.8	RO4350
		2.4–2.51	11.8
[15]	102 × 102 × 3.75	5.71–5.85	8	Vinyl
[17]	62.4 × 33 × 4.5	3.63–4.23	6.67–7.94	RO3003
		5.1–5.35
Proposed	43.2 × 43.2 × 4.6	5.725–5.85	8.2	RO4003