Inkjet-printed wearable microwave components for biomedical applications

Author

Sangkil Kim ; Riccardo, M. ; Bozzi, Maurizio ; Nikolaou, Symeon ; Tentzeris, Manos M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

8-12 April 2013

Firstpage

1926

Lastpage

1929

Abstract

This paper presents technology for the implementation of inkjet-printed wearable microwave components on paper substrate for biomedical applications such as washable inkjet-printed antenna, inkjet-printed antenna on artificial magnetic conductor (AMC), and substrate integrated waveguide (SIW). The Parylene-C is deposited on the inkjet-printed antenna to protect antenna from ambient humidity and small AMC which isolates a RF radiator from human body. Lastly, low cost inkjet-printed SIW on paper substrate is introduced for wearable applications.

Keywords

biomedical electronics; ink jet printing; microstrip antennas; wearable antennas; AMC; RF radiator; SIW; biomedical applications; inkjet-printed antenna; inkjet-printed wearable microwave components; magnetic conductor; paper substrate; parylene-C; substrate integrated waveguide; washable inkjet-printed antenna; Antennas; Substrates; Wireless sensor networks; Inkjet-printed electronics; artificial magnetic conductor (AMC); paper substrate; parylene; substrate integrated waveguide (SIW);

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

6546625