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posted on 2016-05-05, 15:31 authored by Tassos Paraskevopoulos, Duarte M. de Sousa Fonseca, Rob Seager, William WhittowWilliam Whittow, J. C. Vardaxoglou, Antonis A. AlexandridisThis study presents a wearable textile higher-mode microstrip patch antenna (HMMPA) that has been designed to radiate omni-directionally at 2.4 GHz Industrial Scientific and Medical (ISM) band. Emphasis is given to the fabrication process of the textile vias with conductive sewing thread that plays an important role in generating the optimal mode for on-body radiation. The embroidery technique enabled a side-fed low-profile antenna which could be placed directly against the body. The proposed textile HMMPA antenna performance is compared with a probe-fed HMMPA antenna fabricated with rigid copper radiating parts, for both free space and on-body conditions. The on-body antenna performance has been tested by performing near-field measurements of the antenna on a full-body specific anthropomorphic mannequin phantom in an anechoic chamber. Results show that the proposed textile HMMPA antenna with vias made from conductive thread can radiate on-body with good efficiency while minimising the radiation in the broadside direction.
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- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
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IET Microwaves, Antennas & PropagationVolume
10Issue
7Pages
802-807Citation
PARASKEVOPOULOS, A. ... et al., 2016. Higher-mode textile patch antenna with embroidered vias for on-body communication. IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, 10 (7), pp.802-807.Publisher
© Institution of Engineering and TechnologyVersion
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This paper is a preprint of a paper accepted by IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, and is subject to Institution of Engineering and Technology Copyright. When the final version is published, the copy of record will be available at IET Digital Library.ISSN
1751-8725eISSN
1751-8733Publisher version
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