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- Title
Textile Diamond Dipole and Artificial Magnetic Conductor Performance under Bending, Wetness and Specific Absorption Rate Measurements.
- Authors
KAMARDIN, Kamilia; RAHIM, Mohamad Kamal A.; HALL, Peter S.; SAMSURL, Noor Asmawati; JALIL, Mohd Ezwan; ABD MALEK, Mohd Fareq
- Abstract
Textile diamond dipole and Artificial Magnetic Conductor (AMC) have been proposed and tested under wearable and body centric measurements. The proposed antenna and AMC sheet are entirely made of textiles for both the substrate and conducting parts, thus making it suitable for wearable communications. Directive radiation patterns with high gain are obtained with the proposed AMC sheet, hence minimizing the radiation towards the human body. In this study, wearable and body centric measurements are investigated which include bending, wetness and Specific Absorption Rate (SAR). Bending is found not to give significant effect to the antenna and AMC performance, as opposed to wetness that yields severe performance distortion. However, the original performance is retrieved once the antenna and AMC dried. Moreover, notable SAR reduction is achieved with the introduction of the AMC sheet, which is appropriate to reduce the radiation that penetrates into human flesh.
- Subjects
MAGNETIC dipoles; ELECTRICAL conductors; ABSORPTION; ANTENNA radiation patterns; BENDING machines
- Publication
Radioengineering, 2015, Vol 24, Issue 3, p729
- ISSN
1210-2512
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13164/re.2015.0729