Research Article

A Novel Design and Study of a Self-Complimentary Miniaturized Millimeter Wave Antenna for Body-Centric Networks

Table 6

Comparison parameters and results.

ParametersFree-spaceOn-body 2 mmOn-body 4 mmOn-body 6 mmOn-body 8 mmOn-body 10 m

Return loss(dB)-31.45-13.15-11.99-12.48-13.35-13.17
Bandwidth (GHz)10.7710.239.339.549.72
Gain (dBi)6.7126.2936.6746.7436.4006.677
Radiation efficiency (%)84.4873.7877.5176.9277.4179.54