Title :
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
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);
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Memphis, TN
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3538-3
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2014.6904813
