All-textile circular patch antenna with corrugated ground for body surface wave

Author

Jinpil Tak ; Jaehoon Choi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Hanyang Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2014

fDate

6-11 July 2014

Firstpage

971

Lastpage

972

Abstract

In this paper, an all-textile circular patch antenna with corrugated ground for body surface wave is proposed. The proposed antenna is made of textile materials (conductive fabric, conductive thread, and felt substrate) and has monopole-like radiation characteristic in the industrial, scientific, and medical 5.8 GHz band. In order to enhance the radiating field along the surface of human body for proper on-body communication, corrugated ground is adopted. The proposed antenna has a radius of 90 mm and a thickness of 7 mm.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; biomedical communication; fabrics; microstrip antennas; monopole antennas; all-textile circular patch antenna; conductive fabric; conductive thread; corrugated body surface wave ground; felt substrate; frequency 5.8 GHz; human body surface; industrial scientific and medical band; monopole-like radiation characteristics; on-body communication; size 7 m; size 90 mm; textile material; Antenna radiation patterns; Corrugated surfaces; Phantoms; Surface waves; Yarn; all-textile; monopole-like radiation; surface wave; wireless body area network (WBAN);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Memphis, TN

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3538-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2014.6904813

Filename

6904813