Wearable antenna for skin cancer detection

This paper presents a high gain wearable metamaterial antenna for biomedical applications. The wide band antenna is designed such that it mimics the electrical properties of the human skin. The proposed antenna operating in the X-band (8–12 GHz) allows sensing of varying differences in dielectric properties among skin tissues over a wide band of frequency and thus, can be used for skin cancer detection. The proposed antenna resonates at 11.72GHz with gain of 10.9dBi. This wideband antenna is designed and simulated using EM wave solver i.e. High Frequency Structured Simulator (HFSS). This structure showed that symmetrical slotting along y axis modifies bandwidth as well as improves the gain. Here, metamaterials are used to achieve size reduction and highly directive property.