Development and analysis of wearable textile antenna (WTA) design for ISM and hiperlan applications

In recent years, there has been growing interest in utilizing wearable textile antennas for Body Area Network (BAN) antenna applications. Availability of conductive textiles allowed manufacturing of light-weight and flexible wearable antennas made entirely out of textiles. The proposed antenna is...

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Main Author:	Nurul Husna, Mohd Rais
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Language:	English
Subjects:	Broadband antennas Textile antennas Body Area Network (BAN) Wearable Textile Antenna (WTA)
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spelling	my-unimap-324232014-03-07T08:58:12Z Development and analysis of wearable textile antenna (WTA) design for ISM and hiperlan applications Nurul Husna, Mohd Rais In recent years, there has been growing interest in utilizing wearable textile antennas for Body Area Network (BAN) antenna applications. Availability of conductive textiles allowed manufacturing of light-weight and flexible wearable antennas made entirely out of textiles. The proposed antenna is designed and optimized for both ISM (Industrial, Science and Medical) and HiperLAN (High Performance Radio LAN) applications, where operating frequency ranges from 2400 to 2480 MHz and 5150 to 5750 MHz, respectively. Previously, conventional microstrip antenna designs fabricated using rigid printed circuit board (PCB) laminates are unable to conform to BAN's flexibility and deformity prerequisites. On the contrary, the proposed antenna in this investigation is fabricated using conductive textiles, which are built using a combination of conductive polymer/metal fibers and normal fibers. The development procedure of this Wearable Textile Antenna (WTA) starts with its specification definition, materials selection, simulation using CST Microwave Studio software and finally, design prototyping and measurements. Due to the manual fabrication procedure employed, the antenna designed is to be as simple as possible. The proposed basic rectangular radiator is then improved using slots and slits to enable dual-band resonance and broad bandwidths. Its main structural design concept is based on a suspended plate antenna - a 60 × 45 mm rectangular radiating element is suspended over a 80 × 60 mm ground plane using a 5 mm foam substrate. The antenna has undergone several investigations to ascertain its overall performance. Performance of the antenna investigated in free space, placements on different body locations and under different bending radii. S11, gain and efficiency of the antenna in free space and in proximity of human body showed good agreements, indicating design robustness under various operating conditions. Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) 2012 Thesis en http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/dspace/handle/123456789/32423 http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/bitstream/123456789/32423/1/Page%201-24.pdf 6689e868d3f17188e7f5b4b2622df6dc http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/bitstream/123456789/32423/2/Full%20text.pdf 7b025b4babf03f9eee0d7fa99bfe65d4 http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/bitstream/123456789/32423/3/license.txt 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 Broadband antennas Textile antennas Body Area Network (BAN) Wearable Textile Antenna (WTA) School of Computer and Communication Engineering
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topic	Broadband antennas Textile antennas Body Area Network (BAN) Wearable Textile Antenna (WTA)
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description	In recent years, there has been growing interest in utilizing wearable textile antennas for Body Area Network (BAN) antenna applications. Availability of conductive textiles allowed manufacturing of light-weight and flexible wearable antennas made entirely out of textiles. The proposed antenna is designed and optimized for both ISM (Industrial, Science and Medical) and HiperLAN (High Performance Radio LAN) applications, where operating frequency ranges from 2400 to 2480 MHz and 5150 to 5750 MHz, respectively. Previously, conventional microstrip antenna designs fabricated using rigid printed circuit board (PCB) laminates are unable to conform to BAN's flexibility and deformity prerequisites. On the contrary, the proposed antenna in this investigation is fabricated using conductive textiles, which are built using a combination of conductive polymer/metal fibers and normal fibers. The development procedure of this Wearable Textile Antenna (WTA) starts with its specification definition, materials selection, simulation using CST Microwave Studio software and finally, design prototyping and measurements. Due to the manual fabrication procedure employed, the antenna designed is to be as simple as possible. The proposed basic rectangular radiator is then improved using slots and slits to enable dual-band resonance and broad bandwidths. Its main structural design concept is based on a suspended plate antenna - a 60 × 45 mm rectangular radiating element is suspended over a 80 × 60 mm ground plane using a 5 mm foam substrate. The antenna has undergone several investigations to ascertain its overall performance. Performance of the antenna investigated in free space, placements on different body locations and under different bending radii. S11, gain and efficiency of the antenna in free space and in proximity of human body showed good agreements, indicating design robustness under various operating conditions.
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title	Development and analysis of wearable textile antenna (WTA) design for ISM and hiperlan applications
title_short	Development and analysis of wearable textile antenna (WTA) design for ISM and hiperlan applications
title_full	Development and analysis of wearable textile antenna (WTA) design for ISM and hiperlan applications
title_fullStr	Development and analysis of wearable textile antenna (WTA) design for ISM and hiperlan applications
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Development and analysis of wearable textile antenna (WTA) design for ISM and hiperlan applications

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