Embroidery and related manufacturing techniques for wearable antennas: challenges and opportunities

A Tsolis, WG Whittow, AA Alexandridis… - Electronics, 2014 - mdpi.com
This paper will review the evolution of wearable textile antennas over the last couple of
decades. Particular emphasis will be given to the process of embroidery. This technique is …

A method to realize robust flexible electronically tunable antennas using polymer-embedded conductive fabric

RBVB Simorangkir, Y Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new approach to realize robust, flexible, and electronically tunable wearable antennas is
presented. Conductive fabric is used to form the conducting parts of the antenna on a …

A systematic investigation of rectangular patch antenna bending effects for wearable applications

L Song, Y Rahmat-Samii - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging applications for wearable electronics have experienced enormous growth
over the last decade. Antennas, being one of the critical components in modern wireless …

Investigation and reduction methods of specific absorption rate for biomedical applications: A survey

SJ Priyadarshini, DJ Hemanth - International Journal of RF and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) is an inevitable parameter to be considered for
various RF dosimetry evaluations in the field of biomedical engineering. There is a much …

A robust snap-on button solution for reconfigurable wearable textile antennas

SJ Chen, DC Ranasinghe… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A robust solution to realize reconfigurable textile antennas for wearable applications is
proposed. The main idea is to integrate active components (such as varactors or pin diodes) …

A dual-mode, dual-port pattern diversity antenna for 2.45-GHz WBAN

R Masood, C Person, R Sauleau - IEEE Antennas and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A dual-mode, dual-port pattern diversity antenna is presented for 2.45-GHz wireless body
area networks. This antenna provides multiple radiation patterns as desired for both on-and …

A compact dual‐band frequency‐reconfigurable textile antenna for wearable applications

FA Tahir, A Javed - Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This communication presents a flexible, low‐profile, frequency‐tunable textile antenna for
body area wireless communication. The antenna operates in both instrument, scientific and …

Planar textile antennas with artificial magnetic conductor for body-centric communications

K Kamardin, MKA Rahim, PS Hall, NA Samsuri… - Applied Physics A, 2016 - Springer
Two textile antennas namely diamond dipole and coplanar waveguide (CPW) monopole are
designed to test the proposed textile artificial magnetic conductor (AMC). Performance …

Electronically reconfigurable beam steering antenna using embedded RF PIN based parasitic arrays (ERPPA)

T Sabapathy, MFB Jamlos, RB Ahmad, M Jusoh… - Progress In …, 2013 - jpier.org
In this paper, an electronically reconfigurable beam steering antenna using embedded RF
PIN switches based parasitic array (ERPPA) is proposed for modern wireless …

Textile Antennas for Spacesuit Applications: Design, simulation, manufacturing, and testing of textile patch antennas for spacesuit applications

T Haagenson, S Noghanian… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents the design, simulation, manufacturing, and testing of textile patch
antennas for spacesuit applications at the frequency 2.45 GHz. Antennas are designed for …