Title :
Design of a triple band planar bow-tie antenna for wearable applications
Author :
Nagarjun, R. ; George, Geordie ; Thiripurasundari, D. ; Poonkuzhali, R. ; Alex, Zachariah C.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. Eng. [SENSE], VIT Univ., Vellore, India
Abstract :
A novel triple band bow-tie wearable antenna is designed to operate at 450 MHz, 800 MHz and 1.4 GHz. Electro-Textile materials were used as the substrate in order to provide higher degree of flexibility. A study on most commonly used textile substrates are carried out and it is found that jeans cotton provides maximum S11. Specific absorption rate (SAR) of the designed antenna is calculated using the voxel model. The calculated SAR value agrees with the international standards.
Keywords :
bow-tie antennas; multifrequency antennas; planar antennas; textiles; wearable antennas; SAR; electrotextile material; frequency 1.4 GHz; frequency 450 MHz; frequency 800 MHz; international standard; jean cotton; specific absorption rate; textile substrate; triple band planar bow-tie wearable antenna; voxel model; wearable application; Antennas; Biomedical monitoring; Cotton; Substrates; Voxel Model; Wearable antenna; bow-tie; specific absorption rate (SAR); textile substrates;
Conference_Titel :
Information & Communication Technologies (ICT), 2013 IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
JeJu Island
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5759-3
DOI :
10.1109/CICT.2013.6558280
