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

fYear

2013

fDate

11-12 April 2013

Firstpage

1185

Lastpage

1189

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information & Communication Technologies (ICT), 2013 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

JeJu Island

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5759-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICT.2013.6558280

Filename

6558280