This paper presents a wearable antenna for Wireless Body Area Network communication. A 3×3 array artificial magnetic conductor structure (AMC) is loaded at the bottom of the antenna to reduce the backward radiation and improve the antenna gain. The simulated results show that the antenna can completely meet the working requirements in the bent state. After the addition of AMC array, the maximum gain reaches 7.53 dB, and the SAR value of human tissue can be reduced by about 94%. In addition, we have also processed and tested the antenna. The measured results are in good agreement with the simulated results, and its working bandwidth includes the low-frequency band of the ISM frequency band for WBAN communication, which can meet the working requirements of the antenna.

Traditional low-frequency antennas have larger volume and higher energy consumption. These characteristics make the traditional antennas easy to be destroyed by the enemy and expensive to maintain. In this paper, a mechanical antenna based on triangular array of rotating permanent magnets is introduced, and a prototype is made according to the proposed theoretical assumptions. Different from the traditional electric antenna, the mechanical antenna adopts the way of motor driving the permanent magnet to rotate, which realizes the miniaturization of the low-frequency transmitting antenna. In this paper, the analytical model of the rotating magnetic dipole is presented. By comparing the simulation results and the experimental data with the theoretical calculation results, it is proved that the mechanical antenna based on the rotating permanent magnet array can emit low-frequency sinusoidal electromagnetic waves, which has a broad application prospect in the Ultra-Low-Frequency/Very-Low-Frequency (ULF/VLF) communication field.

Aiming at wearable electronic equipment in wireless body area network communication, we propose a circularly polarized wearable antenna based on artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) for the problem of unreliable data transmission of linearly polarized wearable antenna and reduction of transmission distance due to the low gain of antenna. The AMC of in-phase reflection reflects the backward radiation to the top to reduce the damage of the antenna to human body. And the polarization direction of the reflected wave reflected through AMC is the same as that of the main direction, which makes the radiation performance of the antenna improved. Meanwhile, the antenna is flexible and lightweight due to the use of flexible polyimide and graphene films as the substrate and conductor materials. The antenna was also simulated and the prototype was fabricated and tested. The simulation results show that the working bandwidth covers 2.4–2.48 GHz, and the peak gain is 8.09 dBi. The peak specific absorption rate of 1 g and 10 g of human tissue at an input power of 350 mW is 1.48 W kg−1 and 0.65 W kg−1, respectively, which meets the safety standards.