A flexible on-body antenna that is compact, unidirectional, and wideband is presented for electromagnetic (EM) biomedical diagnostic systems. To achieve a low operating-frequency band with compact size, an annular ring antenna is loaded with a capacitive gap, a shorting post at its end, and a shorted circular parasitic element. The antenna is designed and fabricated on a purposely built, highly flexible, low-loss, low-cost room-temperature-vulcanizing silicone (RTV) substrate with a tremendously compact size of 0.055λ0×0.055λ0×0.009λ0, where λ0 is the free-space wavelength at the lowest frequency of 0.55 GHz. The antenna exhibits a measured bandwidth of 0.55-3 GHz at different locations of the human body. The measured near-held radiation patterns demonstrate that the antenna attains unidirectional near-held radiations with more than 10 dB front-to-back-ratio. The received dominant signals of the antenna also exhibit a low distortion level with more than 90% hdelity factor. The achieved features of the proposed antenna conhrm its merits for EM biomedical diagnosis applications.
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