Wearable textile patch antenna for BAN At 60 GHz

Author

Chahat, Nacer ; Zhadobov, Maxim ; Sauleau, Ronan

Author_Institution

Inst. d´Electron. et de Telecommun. de Rennes, Univ. de Rennes 1, Rennes, France

fYear

2013

fDate

8-12 April 2013

Firstpage

217

Lastpage

219

Abstract

A single patch antenna and a four-patch antenna array made on textile are proposed for wireless body area networks (BAN) operating at 60 GHz. The permittivity of the textile substrate has been accurately extracted using a simple resonant technique. In addition, a fabrication process is described in order to achieve the accuracy required at millimeter waves. This results in highly accurate, flexible, and wearable antennas to be integrated in garments. The robustness of the antenna characteristics on the human body is investigated using a skin-equivalent phantom.

Keywords

body area networks; microstrip antennas; millimetre wave antenna arrays; permittivity; wearable antennas; BAN; fabrication process; four-patch antenna array; frequency 60 GHz; human body; millimeter waves; resonant technique; skin-equivalent phantom; textile substrate permittivity; wearable textile patch antenna; wireless body area networks; Antenna arrays; Antenna theory; Connectors; Indexes; Phantoms; Reflector antennas; body-worn antenna; millimeter waves; phantom; textile antenna; wearable antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2013 7th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Gothenburg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2187-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-88-907018-1-8

Type

conf

Filename

6546249