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
fDate :
4/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
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"
Conference_Titel :
Radioelektronika (RADIOELEKTRONIKA), 2012 22nd International Conference
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0659-1
