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FREQUENZ
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WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.1515/freq-2023-0006
Keywords
bending; body area network; on-body antennas; textile antenna; wearable antenna
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This paper proposes the design and analysis of an electrically small eight-shaped wearable antenna for on- and off-body communication. The antenna has a compact size and resonates at 2.4 GHz. It exhibits good gain, omnidirectional radiation pattern, and low specific absorption rate (SAR). The bending analysis and size limitations are also discussed, confirming its practical use.
The design and analysis of the electrically small eight-shaped wearable antenna for both on- and off-body communication is proposed in this paper. An eight-shaped radiating structure is placed over the jeans substrate and an I-shaped slot is introduced in the ground plane which makes the antenna resonates at the ISM-I band (2.4 GHz). The antenna has a compact size of 0.30?(0) x 0.20?(0) x 0.001?(0), where ?(0) is the free space wavelength at the resonance frequency. The impedance bandwidth (=-10 dB) of the antenna is 6.1 % and 5.8 % in free space and presence of a human body phantom respectively. The antenna design exhibits good gain along with an improved omnidirectional radiation pattern. The specific absorption rate (SAR) of the antenna averaged over 1 g of tissue is 0.21 W/kg at 2.45 GHz which is far below the FCC standard. The paper also discusses the bending analysis and the fundamental size limitations of the small antenna, concluding that it is suitable for practical use. The simulated results of the prototype are validated by the measured results.
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