TY - GEN
T1 - Effect of Textile Properties on a Low-Profile Wearable Loop Antenna for Healthcare Applications
AU - Bait-Suwailam, Mohammed M.
AU - Labiano, Isidoro I.
AU - Alomainy, Akram
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 European Association on Antennas and Propagation.
PY - 2019/3
Y1 - 2019/3
N2 - In this paper, numerical and experimental studies on performance evaluation of low-profile wearable loop antenna for healthcare monitoring applications are conducted. Parametric studies on the effect of textile cotton fabric properties, considering the electrical permittivity and substrate thickness, are investigated in order to evaluate the trend on loop antenna's resonance behavior. Experimental validation is also carried out and comparison is made. Good agreement between modeled wearable loop antenna and the fabricated one was obtained, with almost 3% shift in resonance frequncy, due to the estimated textile properties within the simulation model. The effect of implanting the wearable antenna on close-proximity to a modeled arm phantom is also numerically studied and assessed.
AB - In this paper, numerical and experimental studies on performance evaluation of low-profile wearable loop antenna for healthcare monitoring applications are conducted. Parametric studies on the effect of textile cotton fabric properties, considering the electrical permittivity and substrate thickness, are investigated in order to evaluate the trend on loop antenna's resonance behavior. Experimental validation is also carried out and comparison is made. Good agreement between modeled wearable loop antenna and the fabricated one was obtained, with almost 3% shift in resonance frequncy, due to the estimated textile properties within the simulation model. The effect of implanting the wearable antenna on close-proximity to a modeled arm phantom is also numerically studied and assessed.
KW - loop antenna
KW - textile antenna
KW - textile fabrics
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2019
BT - 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2019
Y2 - 31 March 2019 through 5 April 2019
ER -