Recent advances in fabrication methods for flexible antennas in wearable devices: State of the art

B Mohamadzade, RM Hashmi, RBVB Simorangkir… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Antennas are a vital component of the wireless body sensor networks devices. A wearable
antenna in this system can be used as a communication component or energy harvester …

A wearable dual-band low profile high gain low SAR antenna AMC-backed for WBAN applications

M El Atrash, MA Abdalla… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A dual-band, low profile, high gain, and low specific absorption rate (SAR) triangular slotted
monopole antenna backed with a 4× 4 artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) array is …

CPW-fed slot antenna for medical wearable applications

YJ Li, ZY Lu, LS Yang - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a flexible antenna with a simple structure, small size (15mm× 17mm× 1mm),
and light weight for medical wearable applications is proposed. The antenna consists of slot …

A compact circularly polarized antenna with directional pattern for wearable off-body communications

U Ullah, IB Mabrouk, S Koziel - IEEE Antennas and Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a geometrically simple and compact circularly polarized antenna with
unidirectional radiation characteristics for off-body communications. The proposed antenna …

Metamaterial inspired fabric antenna for wearable applications

AYI Ashyap, Z Zainal Abidin, SH Dahlan… - … Journal of RF and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A compact and robust fabric antenna incorporated with metamaterials (MTM) at 2.4 GHz is
introduced for wearable devices application where the MTM behaves as EBG/AMC. The …

Microstrip monopole antenna with a novel UC‐EBG for 2.4 GHz WBAN applications

G Gao, R Zhang, C Yang, H Meng… - IET Microwaves …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A microstrip monopole antenna backed with a novel uniplanar compact electromagnetic
bandgap (UC‐EBG) structure for 2.4 GHz wireless body area network applications is …

Development of a 2.45 GHz antenna for flexible compact radiation dosimeter tags

OM Sanusi, FA Ghaffar, A Shamim… - … on antennas and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Numerous medical operations employ blood transfusions, requiring X-ray irradiated blood
for safety concerns. Current irradiation techniques can be significantly improved by …

Ultra wide band CPW-fed circularly polarized microstrip antenna for wearable applications

S Das, H Islam, T Bose, N Gupta - Wireless Personal Communications, 2019 - Springer
A conformal rigid microstrip ultra-wideband (UWB) circularly polarized wearable antenna is
proposed to overcome the behavioural irregularities of flexible body-worn antennas. The …

Specific absorption rate reduction using metasurface unit cell for flexible polydimethylsiloxane antenna for 2.4 GHz wearable applications

DK Janapala, M Nesasudha… - … Journal of RF and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents the design of a polydimethylsiloxane based flexible antenna for body
worn applications. In order to reduce the specific absorption rate (SAR) metasurface (MS) …

Wide CPW‐fed multiband wearable monopole antenna with extended grounds for GSM/WLAN/WiMAX applications

D Mandal, SS Pattnaik - International Journal of Antennas and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A novel wide coplanar waveguide‐(CPW‐) fed multiband wearable monopole antenna is
presented. The multiband operation is achieved by generating slanted monopoles of …