Recent advances in fabrication methods for flexible antennas in wearable devices: State of the art

B Mohamadzade, RM Hashmi, RBVB Simorangkir… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Antennas are a vital component of the wireless body sensor networks devices. A wearable
antenna in this system can be used as a communication component or energy harvester …

Recent advances of wearable antennas in materials, fabrication methods, designs, and their applications: State-of-the-art

SM Ali, C Sovuthy, MA Imran, S Socheatra, QH Abbasi… - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
The demand for wearable technologies has grown tremendously in recent years. Wearable
antennas are used for various applications, in many cases within the context of wireless …

Compact EBG-backed planar monopole for BAN wearable applications

MAB Abbasi, SS Nikolaou… - … on Antennas and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a planar monopole backed with a 2× 1 array of electromagnetic
bandgap (EBG) structures. The reflection phase of a single EBG unit cell has been studied …

Full ground ultra-wideband wearable textile antenna for breast cancer and wireless body area network applications

SN Mahmood, AJ Ishak, T Saeidi, AC Soh, A Jalal… - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Wireless body area network (WBAN) applications have broad utility in monitoring patient
health and transmitting the data wirelessly. WBAN can greatly benefit from wearable …

An overview of electromagnetic band-gap integrated wearable antennas

AYI Ashyap, SHB Dahlan, ZZ Abidin, MI Abbasi… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent advancement in the wireless technology has led to the advent of wearable
antennas. These antennas are utilized for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) purposes …

Highly efficient wearable CPW antenna enabled by EBG-FSS structure for medical body area network applications

AYI Ashyap, ZZ Abidin, SH Dahlan, HA Majid… - IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A wearable fabric CPW antenna is presented for medical body area network (MBAN)
applications at 2.4 GHz based on an electromagnetic bandgap design and frequency …

Design of compact single-layer textile MIMO antenna for wearable applications

H Li, S Sun, B Wang, F Wu - IEEE Transactions on Antennas …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A compact single-layer textile MIMO antenna is designed for wearable applications. The
theory of characteristic mode is used to guide the antenna design and analyze its …

A method to realize robust flexible electronically tunable antennas using polymer-embedded conductive fabric

RBVB Simorangkir, Y Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new approach to realize robust, flexible, and electronically tunable wearable antennas is
presented. Conductive fabric is used to form the conducting parts of the antenna on a …

Wearable dual-band high-gain low-SAR antenna for off-body communication

TT Le, TY Yun - IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A wearable dual-band folded-ring antenna, that has directional radiation pattern and offers
high-gain, high-efficiency, and low-specific absorption rate (SAR) performance, is presented …

Meta-wearable antennas—A review of metamaterial based antennas in wireless body area networks

K Zhang, PJ Soh, S Yan - Materials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has attracted more and more attention in many sectors
of society. As a critical component in these systems, wearable antennas suffer from several …