Aperture-coupled wearable antenna with miniature feeding network

Zhang, Jiahao; Yan, Sen; Hu, Xiaomu; Vandenbosch, Guy A. E.

doi:10.23919/eucap.2017.7928293

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“…A wearable antenna with a small feeding network was discussed in [61]. The antenna used the aperture coupling technique.…”

Section: Wearable Antennamentioning

confidence: 99%

Compact Flexible Planar Antennas for Biomedical Applications: Insight into Materials and Systems Design

Venkatachalam,

Jagadeesan,

Ismail

et al. 2023

Bioengineering

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Planar antennas have become an integral component in modern biomedical instruments owing to their compact structure, cost effectiveness, and light weight. These antennas are crucial in realizing medical systems such as body area networks, remote health monitoring, and microwave imaging systems. Antennas intended for the above applications should be conformal and fabricated using lightweight materials that are suitable for wear on the human body. Wearable antennas are intended to be placed on the human body to examine its health conditions. Hence, the performance of the antenna, such as its radiation characteristics across the operating frequency bands, should not be affected by human body proximity. This is achieved by selecting appropriate conformal materials whose characteristics remain stable under all environmental conditions. This paper aims to highlight the effects of human body proximity on wearable antenna performance. Additionally, this paper reviews the various types of flexible antennas proposed for biomedical applications. It describes the challenges in designing wearable antennas, the selection of a flexible material that is suitable for fabricating wearable antennas, and the relevant methods of fabrication. This paper also highlights the future directions in this rapidly growing field. Flexible antennas are the keystone for implementing next-generation wireless communication devices for health monitoring and health safety applications.

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“…A wearable antenna with a small feeding network was discussed in [61]. The antenna used the aperture coupling technique.…”

Section: Wearable Antennamentioning

confidence: 99%

Compact Flexible Planar Antennas for Biomedical Applications: Insight into Materials and Systems Design

Venkatachalam,

Jagadeesan,

Ismail

et al. 2023

Bioengineering

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“…Researchers have focused on conventional designs using textile materials and inkjet/screen printing methods [ 17 ]. However, they have not been able to solve all the existing challenges previously mentioned, despite showing some acceptable outcomes [ 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 ]. Thus, it is imperative, in retrospect of the recent progress in wearable antennas and their applications in the WBAN systems.…”

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confidence: 99%

Recent Advances of Wearable Antennas in Materials, Fabrication Methods, Designs, and Their Applications: State-of-the-Art

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The demand for wearable technologies has grown tremendously in recent years. Wearable antennas are used for various applications, in many cases within the context of wireless body area networks (WBAN). In WBAN, the presence of the human body poses a significant challenge to the wearable antennas. Specifically, such requirements are required to be considered on a priority basis in the wearable antennas, such as structural deformation, precision, and accuracy in fabrication methods and their size. Various researchers are active in this field and, accordingly, some significant progress has been achieved recently. This article attempts to critically review the wearable antennas especially in light of new materials and fabrication methods, and novel designs, such as miniaturized button antennas and miniaturized single and multi-band antennas, and their unique smart applications in WBAN. Finally, the conclusion has been drawn with respect to some future directions.

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“…technology is a strong choice in a WBAN network to reduce the power spectral range, which translates into better battery life and decreased electromagnetic sensitivity for constant on-body operation [3], [4]. The wearable antenna is a crucial component of contact with certain instruments in WBAN networks, whether on or off the human body [5]. Constructing a wearable antenna for such schemes is extremely difficult, particularly for ultra-wideband service.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

ON-OFF Body Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Antenna for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN): A Review

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Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology can offer broad capacity, short-range communications at a relatively low level of energy usage, which is very desirable for wireless body area networks (WBANs). The involvement of the human body in such a device poses immense difficulties for both the architecture of the wearable antenna and the broadcast model. Initially, the bonding between the wearable antenna and the human body should also be acknowledged in the early stages of the design, so that both the potentially degrading output of the antenna as a consequence of the body and the possibility of exposure for the body may be handled. Next, the transmission path in WBAN is affected by the constant activity of the human body, leading to the time-varying dispersion of electromagnetic waves. Few researchers were interested in this field, and some substantial progress has recently been considered. On the other hand, this paper covered both wearable and Non-wearable UWB antenna designs and applications with respect to their substrate characteristics. Finally, this review prospectively exposes the upgraded developments of (ON-OFF) body antennas in the area of wearable and Non-wearable UWB and their implementations in the WBAN device and aims to evaluate the latest design features that inspire the performance of the antennas.INDEX TERMS ON-body antenna, OFF-body antenna, wearable antenna, ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna, wireless body area network (WBAN).

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Aperture-coupled wearable antenna with miniature feeding network

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

Compact Flexible Planar Antennas for Biomedical Applications: Insight into Materials and Systems Design

Compact Flexible Planar Antennas for Biomedical Applications: Insight into Materials and Systems Design

Recent Advances of Wearable Antennas in Materials, Fabrication Methods, Designs, and Their Applications: State-of-the-Art

ON-OFF Body Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Antenna for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN): A Review

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