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Textile UWB antenna bending and wet performances

Osman, Mai A. R. and A Rahim, Mohamad Kamal and Samsuri, Noor Asmawati and Elbasheer, M. K. and Ali, M. E. (2012) Textile UWB antenna bending and wet performances. International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 2012 . pp. 1-12. ISSN 1687-5869

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Abstract

The vision and ideas of wearable computing systems describe future electronic systems as an integral part of our everyday clothing that provides the wearer with such intelligent personal assistants. Recently, there has been growing interest in the antenna community to merge between wearable systems technology, ultrawideband (UWB) technology and textile technology. This work aimed to make closer steps towards real wearability by investigating the possibilities of designing wearable UWB antenna where textile materials are used for the substrate as well as the conducting parts of the designed antenna. Two types of conducting materials have been used for conducting parts, while a nonconducting fabric has been used as antenna substrate material. A set of comparative results of the proposed design were presented and discussed. Moreover, effects on the return loss by means of measurements for each fabricated antenna prototype under bent and fully wet conditions were discussed in more details.

Item Type:Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:ultrawideband (UWB), textile technology
Subjects:T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Divisions:Electrical Engineering
ID Code:33689
Deposited By: Fazli Masari
Deposited On:06 Sep 2013 08:45
Last Modified:14 Oct 2018 08:19

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