Performance Enhancement of Wearable Antenna Using High Impedance Surfaces
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This paper presents a novel textile wearable antenna that has been designed to operate at Wi-Fi bands of 2.4GHz & 5.8GHz. Antenna performance in free space environment showed Gain of 1.8dBi at 2.4GHz and 4.5dBi at 5.8GHz. However, performance deteriorated when antenna was operated near human body which is lossy and complex in nature. For mitigating the human body effect on antenna performance, high impedance surface (HIS) was designed and integrated with this textile antenna. Due to shielding effect of HIS, antenna Gain increased to 8dBi at 2.4GHz and 9dBi at 5.8GHz. The SAR values were also reduced to 0.682W/Kg at 2.4GHz and 0.0692W/Kg at 5.8GHz for 10g tissue. The proposed antenna was also tested under bending and crumpling conditions. It was observed that antenna performance was not significantly deteriorated. The proposed textile antenna can have exciting applications in emerging wearable technologies.
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Bashir, S., Khan, , M. S., Jan, K. U., & Ullah, S. (2022). Performance Enhancement of Wearable Antenna Using High Impedance Surfaces. International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security (IJCNIS), 9(1). https://doi.org/10.17762/ijcnis.v9i1.2220 (Original work published April 3, 2017)
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