Recent developments and state of the art in flexible and conformal reconfigurable antennas

B Mohamadzade, RBVB Simorangkir, S Maric… - Electronics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Reconfigurable antennas have gained tremendous interest owing to their multifunctional
capabilities while adhering to minimalistic space requirements in ever-shrinking electronics …

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 …

Self-sustainable biomedical devices powered by RF energy: A review

H Yahya Alkhalaf, M Yazed Ahmad, H Ramiah - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Wearable and implantable medical devices (IMDs) have come a long way in the past few
decades and have contributed to the development of many personalized health monitoring …

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 …

Flexible compact system for wearable health monitoring applications

SS Dhanabalan, R Sitharthan, K Madurakavi… - Computers and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this modern world, the need for compact, lightweight, and flexible devices to modernize
and monitor the health in busy day-to-day life is increasing drastically. In connection to this …

A compact grounded asymmetric coplanar strip-fed flexible multiband reconfigurable antenna for wireless applications

K Sreelakshmi, GS Rao, M Kumar - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A compact grounded asymmetric coplanar strip (GACS)-fed flexible multiband frequency
reconfigurable antenna with two PIN diodes is proposed. The investigated antenna is …

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) …

Recent advancement of wearable reconfigurable antenna technologies: A review

U Musa, SM Shah, HA Majid, ZZ Abidin… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) technology is gaining popularity in personal
communication owing to the expanding improvement in wireless technology. Wearable …

Flexible and wearable 2.45 GHz CPW‐fed antenna using inkjet‐printing of silver nanoparticles on pet substrate

X Guo, Y Hang, Z Xie, C Wu, L Gao… - Microwave and optical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This article demonstrated a fully printed CPW‐fed antenna based on silver‐nanoparticles for
ISM that is flexible, wearable, and reversibly deformable. The proposed antenna consists of …

A wearable self-grounding slit antenna for ISM/4G/5G/bluetooth/WLAN applications

Z Yu, R Niu, G Zhang, R Sun, Z Lin, Y Li, X Ran - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This design proposes a self-grounding semi-circular gap dual-band flexible antenna in the
context of the rapid development of wireless body area networks. The antenna combines the …