A novel ultra-wide band wearable antenna under different bending conditions for electronic-textile applications

Gharbi, Mariam El; Martinez-Estrada, Marc; Fernández‐García, Raúl; Ahyoud, Saida; Gil, Ignacio

doi:10.1080/00405000.2020.1762326

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“…The use of electro-textiles and smart clothes in connectivity, culture, health, and safety involves the installation of several electronic tools directly onto textile substrates to increase the security and efficiency of the consumers [58]. In view of this, an innovative Ultra-wideband textile (UWB) antenna was proposed by El El Gharbi et al for portable applications in [59]. The proposed antenna was constructed and introduced with desirable characteristics such as a robust full embroidered topology and low dielectric loss on a felt textile substrate with full antenna dimensions (30 × 30 × 0.7) mm (see Figure 6).…”

Section: Textile Wearable Antennasmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Throughout the activity, textile antennas are expected to be bent or otherwise conformed to a particular surface, and so experiments under various bending circumstances are important to explore differences in bending-dependent features. The antennas are either mounted or twisted over a ring, which could be a typical arm or chest form pattern [59,67]. A WBAN consists of body-located wireless nodes that can communicate with each other and/or with an external base station using an effective antenna.…”

Section: Bending Scenarios In Wearable Antennasmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Owing to the versatility of the textile material antennas, they are readily bendable to conform to the structure of the human body and provide consumer convenience; even under bending circumstances, the antenna can retain its optimum efficiency. Hence, under specific bending conditions, lightweight wearable antenna efficiency parameters should be evaluated [59,94]. As presented before, El Gharbi et al [59] presented an Ultra-wideband textile (UWB) antenna designed for wearable applications.…”

Section: Bending Scenarios In Wearable Antennasmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hence, under specific bending conditions, lightweight wearable antenna efficiency parameters should be evaluated [59,94]. As presented before, El Gharbi et al [59] presented an Ultra-wideband textile (UWB) antenna designed for wearable applications. Besides, El Gharbi discussed the effect of bending on the performance of the antenna.…”

Section: Bending Scenarios In Wearable Antennasmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Section 2 investigated the performance of textile wearable antennas with respect to their size, substrates, and frequency bands [29, 37, 42-44, 46, 57, 59, 60]. Furthermore, the bending scenarios of antennas in several radiuses and the impact of bending on the efficiency were addressed in Section 3 [59,67,70,71,73,79,85,[91][92][93]. On the other hand, Section 4 exposed the high conductive substrate materials and discussed their effect on the design and fabrication of different wearable antennas [111, 115-119, 124, 125, 132].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Wearable antennas have received a great deal of popularity in recent years owing to their enticing characteristics and opportunities to realize lightweight, compact, low-cost, and versatile wireless communications and environments. These antennas must be conformal, and they must be built using lightweight materials and constructed in a low-profile configuration when mounted on various areas of the human body. These antennas ought to be able to function close to the human body with limited deterioration. These criteria render the layout of wearable antennas demanding, particularly when considering factors such as investigating the usability of textile substrates, high conductive materials during fabrication processes, and the effect of body binding scenarios on the performance of the design. Although there are minor differences in magnitude based on the implementations, several of these problems occur in the body-worn deployment sense. This study addresses the numerous problems and obstacles in the production of wearable antennas, their variety of materials, and the techniques of manufacturing alongside with bending scheme. This is accompanied by a summary of creative features and their respective approaches to address these problems recently raised by work in this area by the science community.

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Section: Textile Wearable Antennasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Bending Scenarios In Wearable Antennasmentioning

confidence: 99%