Structural design for stretchable microstrip antennas

J Zhu, JJ Fox, N Yi, H Cheng - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2019 - ACS Publications
Wireless technology plays a critical role in the development of flexible and stretchable
electronics due to the increasing demand for compactness, portability, and level of comfort …

Textile-based stretchable microstrip antenna with intrinsic strain sensing

F Nikbakhtnasrabadi, H El Matbouly… - ACS Applied …, 2021 - ACS Publications
This paper presents a textile-based stretchable microstrip patch antenna with intrinsic strain
for e-textiles with seamlessly integrated multifunctional devices. Several microstrip antennas …

Strain-insensitive hierarchically structured stretchable microstrip antennas for robust wireless communication

J Zhu, S Zhang, N Yi, C Song, D Qiu, Z Hu, B Li… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2021 - Springer
As the key component of wireless data transmission and powering, stretchable antennas
play an indispensable role in flexible/stretchable electronics. However, they often suffer from …

Stretchable and reversibly deformable radio frequency antennas based on silver nanowires

L Song, AC Myers, JJ Adams, Y Zhu - ACS applied materials & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate a class of microstrip patch antennas that are stretchable, mechanically
tunable, and reversibly deformable. The radiating element of the antenna consists of highly …

Recent development of flexible and stretchable antennas for bio-integrated electronics

J Zhu, H Cheng - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Wireless technology plays an important role in data communication and power transmission,
which has greatly boosted the development of flexible and stretchable electronics for …

Highly stretchable and mechanically tunable antennas based on three-dimensional liquid metal network

B Yao, X Xu, Q Zhang, H Yu, H Li, L Ren, S Perini… - Materials Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
We develop a class of stretchable dipole antennas based on embedding three-dimensional
liquid metal network into an elastically soft elastomer as conductive branches, which can be …

A general strategy for stretchable microwave antenna systems using serpentine mesh layouts

T Chang, Y Tanabe, CC Wojcik… - Advanced Functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Wireless functionality is essential for the implementation of wearable systems, but its
adaptation in stretchable electronic systems has had limited success. In this paper, the …

Standalone stretchable RF systems based on asymmetric 3D microstrip antennas with on-body wireless communication and energy harvesting

S Zhang, J Zhu, Y Zhang, Z Chen, C Song, J Li, N Yi… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
As an indispensable component, the stretchable antenna with the potential use in wireless
communication and radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting can provide future wearable …

A Microfluidic, Reversibly Stretchable, Large‐Area Wireless Strain Sensor

S Cheng, Z Wu - Advanced functional materials, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This article describes the implementation and characterization of a new self‐contained large‐
area wireless strain sensor, operating around 1.5 GHz, based on the concept of multi‐layer …

Soft materials, stretchable mechanics, and optimized designs for body-wearable compliant antennas

YS Kim, A Basir, R Herbert, J Kim, H Yoo… - ACS applied materials …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Among the various methods to develop flexible wearable antennas, a serpentine, mesh
structure has been a great interest because of its mechanical reliability upon applied strain …