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- Title
Flexible and Transparent Circularly Polarized Patch Antenna for Reliable Unobtrusive Wearable Wireless Communications.
- Authors
Sayem, Abu Sadat Md.; Simorangkir, Roy B. V. B.; Esselle, Karu P.; Lalbakhsh, Ali; Gawade, Dinesh R.; O'Flynn, Brendan; Buckley, John L.
- Abstract
This paper presents a circularly polarized flexible and transparent circular patch antenna suitable for body-worn wireless-communications. Circular polarization is highly beneficial in wearable wireless communications, where antennas, as a key component of the RF front-end, operate in dynamic environments, such as the human body. The demonstrated antenna is realized with highly flexible, robust and transparent conductive-fabric-polymer composite. The performance of the explored flexible-transparent antenna is also compared with its non-transparent counterpart manufactured with non-transparent conductive fabric. This comparison further demonstrates the suitability of the proposed materials for the target unobtrusive wearable applications. Detailed numerical and experimental investigations are explored in this paper to verify the proposed design. Moreover, the compatibility of the antenna in wearable applications is evaluated by testing the performance on a forearm phantom and calculating the specific absorption rate (SAR).
- Subjects
ANTENNAS (Electronics); CIRCULAR polarization; WEARABLE antennas; HUMAN body; MICROSTRIP antennas; WIRELESS communications; FOREARM
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2022, Vol 22, Issue 3, p1276
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s22031276