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 …

Omnidirectional Dual-Polarized Low-Profile Textile Rectenna With Over 50% Efficiency for Sub-μW/cm2 Wearable Power Harvesting

M Wagih, AS Weddell, S Beeby - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the recent advances in textile antennas, in complete systems such as a rectenna,
the efficiency of fully textile solutions has been over 46% lower than hybrid textile/rigid …

Physical interactions between millimeter waves and human body: from macro-to micro-scale

G Sacco, M Zhadobov - IEEE Journal of Microwaves, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the massive deployment of 5G worldwide the entire population is expected to be
exposed to millimeter waves (mmWs), representing new frequencies recently introduced into …

Ultrawideband, stable normal and cancer skin tissue phantoms for millimeter-wave skin cancer imaging

A Mirbeik-Sabzevari… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work introduces new, stable, and broadband skin-equivalent semisolid phantoms for
mimicking interactions of millimeter waves with the human skin and skin tumors. Realistic …

Design and study of an mmwave wearable textile based compact antenna for healthcare applications

M Monirujjaman Khan, J Hossain… - … journal of antennas …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, the design of a compact and novel millimeter wave cotton textile‐based
wearable antenna for body‐centric communications in healthcare applications is presented …

Real-world performance of sub-1 GHz and 2.4 GHz textile antennas for RF-powered body area networks

M Wagih, O Cetinkaya, B Zaghari, AS Weddell… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In Radio Frequency (RF)-powered networks, peak antenna gains and path-loss models are
often used to predict the power that can be received by a rectenna. However, this leads to …

Near-body shadowing analysis at 60 GHz

T Mavridis, L Petrillo, J Sarrazin… - … on Antennas and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A numerical model of the fading of a receiver (Rx) located near the user body at 60 GHz in
an indoor environment is presented. The model is based on the indoor channel model IEEE …

Broadband low-loss on-body UHF to millimeter-wave surface wave links using flexible textile single wire transmission lines

M Wagih - IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
On-body transmission represents a challenge due to human body shadowing. This paper
proposes a Sommerfeld-Goubau single-wire transmission line (SWTL) implemented using …

Antenna/human body coupling in 5G millimeter-wave bands: Do age and clothing matter?

G Sacco, D Nikolayev, R Sauleau… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the fast development of 5th generation (5G) mobile networks and prominence of the
personal area networks and human-centered communications, people of all ages are …

Monte Carlo simulation of clothed skin exposure to electromagnetic field with oblique incidence angles at 60 GHz

K Li, K Sasaki - Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This study presents an investigation of clothed human skin exposure to obliquely incident
electromagnetic waves at 60 GHz. We clarified the combined impacts of the cloth material …