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Planar textile antenna for body centric wireless communication system

Jalil, Mohd. Ezwan and Abdul Rahim, Mohammad Kamal and Ramly, Nurul Jannah and Samsuri, Noorasmawati and Kamardin, Kamilia and Abdullah, Mohd. Azfar and A. Majid, Huda (2014) Planar textile antenna for body centric wireless communication system. Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, 54 . pp. 29-40. ISSN 1937-8718

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.2528/PIERC14040208

Abstract

One of the most important aspects for body centric communication is the development of the textile antenna for on-body communication. Antennas for on-body environment usually suffer performance degradation caused by the human body. Apart from that, textile antenna gets easily bent, flexed, wrinkled or wet. This paper presents an investigation on three different designs and types of planar antennas, which are single band textile dipole antenna, fractal Koch multiband dipole antenna and monopole ultra wide band antennas. The performance of the antennas has been evaluated in terms of bending, wetness condition and on-body simulation. The results show that the bending effect is not critical in free space for the planar antennas, but the performance is notably degraded under wet condition while the antenna reflection coefficient is shifted when placed on the human body

Item Type:Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:antennas, dipole antennas, monopole antennas, textiles, ultra-wideband (UWB), wireless telecommunication systems
Subjects:T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Divisions:Electrical Engineering
ID Code:54508
Deposited By: Siti Nor Hashidah Zakaria
Deposited On:05 Apr 2016 07:00
Last Modified:12 Aug 2018 03:56

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