DocumentCode
3646780
Title
Wearable pi-slot microstrip antenna for applications in UHF band
Author
Ivana Bubalo;Branimir Ivšić;Davor Bonefačić
Author_Institution
Dept. of Wireless Communications, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
fYear
2012
fDate
4/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
4
Abstract
Design of a microstrip textile antenna with pi-shaped slot in the patch was proposed. The antenna is supposed to be worn on body and used for body-centric communications in the UHF band (around 400 MHz). The calculated results were compared to the ones measured on the prototype and some minor discrepancies were observed. The input reflection coefficient was measured using various textile materials as substrates. Finally, the influence of antenna bending and the vicinity of human body on the antenna performance were investigated.
Keywords
"Antennas","Antenna measurements","Substrates","Textiles","Reflection","Bandwidth","Resonant frequency"
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Radioelektronika (RADIOELEKTRONIKA), 2012 22nd International Conference
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-0659-1
Type
conf
Filename
6207681
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