Reconfigurable Ultra-Miniaturized MIMO Antenna for Tissue-Independent Communication in Injectable Medical Implants
This article introduces a compact, reconfigurable multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna tailored for injectable in-body implants, designed to operate efficiently in the 2.45 GHz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band, ensuring consistent performance regardless of the host tissue type...
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| description | This article introduces a compact, reconfigurable multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna tailored for injectable in-body implants, designed to operate efficiently in the 2.45 GHz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band, ensuring consistent performance regardless of the host tissue type, such as muscle or fat. The antenna design achieves miniaturization using meandered lines and shorting pins, while reconfigurability is obtained by adjusting the meandered length with an ON-OFF switch (diode). When the diode is ON, the antenna’s meandered length is increased, thereby extending its effective length and enabling resonance in the 2.42–2.48 GHz range for fat tissues. Conversely, when the diode is OFF, the effective length is reduced, allowing the same antenna to operate within the 2.38–2.48 GHz range in muscle tissues. The proposed antenna, fabricated on a flexible polyimide substrate (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\varepsilon _{r} =3.5$ </tex-math></inline-formula>), with overall dimensions of 5 mm <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times 2$ </tex-math></inline-formula> mm <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times 0.05$ </tex-math></inline-formula> mm, is enclosed within a biocompatible polyimide casing. The antenna’s performance is evaluated through simulations in homogeneous single-layer (fat/muscle) and three-layer (skin, fat, and muscle) phantoms, along with a realistic heterogeneous hand model, and validated through an ex-vivo setup, which includes fabricating the antenna prototype and measuring its performance in pork meat and a phantom solution. This innovative, miniaturized, tissue-independent MIMO antenna achieves isolation greater than 15 dB via orthogonal arrangement and 1 mm element spacing, with impedance bandwidths of 60 MHz in fat and 100 MHz in muscle. Furthermore, MIMO characteristics are evaluated and antenna robustness and safety are verified through specific absorption rate measurements using voxel models, highlighting the antenna’s suitability for injectable applications. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-dc0966dab8434319be318d37de1001f92025-02-07T00:01:13ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-0113226632267710.1109/ACCESS.2025.353578010855997Reconfigurable Ultra-Miniaturized MIMO Antenna for Tissue-Independent Communication in Injectable Medical ImplantsL. Harlan0https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9560-8441M. Susila1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2773-4939Sachin Kumar2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6260-6353Hyun Chul Choi3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3128-6737Kang Wook Kim4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3959-9191Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, IndiaDepartment of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, IndiaDepartment of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaSchool of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of KoreaSchool of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of KoreaThis article introduces a compact, reconfigurable multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna tailored for injectable in-body implants, designed to operate efficiently in the 2.45 GHz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band, ensuring consistent performance regardless of the host tissue type, such as muscle or fat. The antenna design achieves miniaturization using meandered lines and shorting pins, while reconfigurability is obtained by adjusting the meandered length with an ON-OFF switch (diode). When the diode is ON, the antenna’s meandered length is increased, thereby extending its effective length and enabling resonance in the 2.42–2.48 GHz range for fat tissues. Conversely, when the diode is OFF, the effective length is reduced, allowing the same antenna to operate within the 2.38–2.48 GHz range in muscle tissues. The proposed antenna, fabricated on a flexible polyimide substrate (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\varepsilon _{r} =3.5$ </tex-math></inline-formula>), with overall dimensions of 5 mm <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times 2$ </tex-math></inline-formula> mm <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times 0.05$ </tex-math></inline-formula> mm, is enclosed within a biocompatible polyimide casing. The antenna’s performance is evaluated through simulations in homogeneous single-layer (fat/muscle) and three-layer (skin, fat, and muscle) phantoms, along with a realistic heterogeneous hand model, and validated through an ex-vivo setup, which includes fabricating the antenna prototype and measuring its performance in pork meat and a phantom solution. This innovative, miniaturized, tissue-independent MIMO antenna achieves isolation greater than 15 dB via orthogonal arrangement and 1 mm element spacing, with impedance bandwidths of 60 MHz in fat and 100 MHz in muscle. Furthermore, MIMO characteristics are evaluated and antenna robustness and safety are verified through specific absorption rate measurements using voxel models, highlighting the antenna’s suitability for injectable applications.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10855997/Biomedical deviceflexible antennainjectable antennaMIMOreconfigurable antenna |
| spellingShingle | L. Harlan M. Susila Sachin Kumar Hyun Chul Choi Kang Wook Kim Reconfigurable Ultra-Miniaturized MIMO Antenna for Tissue-Independent Communication in Injectable Medical Implants IEEE Access Biomedical device flexible antenna injectable antenna MIMO reconfigurable antenna |
| title | Reconfigurable Ultra-Miniaturized MIMO Antenna for Tissue-Independent Communication in Injectable Medical Implants |
| title_full | Reconfigurable Ultra-Miniaturized MIMO Antenna for Tissue-Independent Communication in Injectable Medical Implants |
| title_fullStr | Reconfigurable Ultra-Miniaturized MIMO Antenna for Tissue-Independent Communication in Injectable Medical Implants |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reconfigurable Ultra-Miniaturized MIMO Antenna for Tissue-Independent Communication in Injectable Medical Implants |
| title_short | Reconfigurable Ultra-Miniaturized MIMO Antenna for Tissue-Independent Communication in Injectable Medical Implants |
| title_sort | reconfigurable ultra miniaturized mimo antenna for tissue independent communication in injectable medical implants |
| topic | Biomedical device flexible antenna injectable antenna MIMO reconfigurable antenna |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10855997/ |
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