WEBGA - wearable electromagnetic band-gap antenna

Author

Salonen, Pekka ; Yang, Fan ; Rahmat-Samii, Yahya ; Kivikoski, Markku

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

20-25 June 2004

Firstpage

451

Abstract

This work presents a novel wearable electromagnetic bandgap antenna (WEBGA) made out of conventional felt fabric. By introducing an electromagnetic bandgap surface to a conventional textile antenna, the required antenna size can be reduced by more than 30%. In addition, the input-match bandwidth can be increased almost 50%. Fabric antennas have shown their usefulness in various antenna applications. Eventually, this will result in full system integration on textile materials which will replace circuit boards on wearable applications. Such a system is then called system-on-fabric (SoF).

Keywords

UHF antennas; fabrics; microstrip antennas; mobile antennas; periodic structures; wireless LAN; 2.4 to 2.5 GHz; EBG mushrooms; SoF; WEBGA; WLAN antenna; fabric antennas; felt fabric; input-match bandwidth; metallic patches; microwave antennas; periodic structures; system-on-fabric; textile antenna; wearable electromagnetic band-gap antenna; Antennas and propagation; Dielectric constant; Dielectric materials; Fabrics; Metamaterials; Microwave antennas; Periodic structures; Reflection; Resonant frequency; Textiles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2004. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8302-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2004.1329671

Filename

1329671