A Wearable Wideband Circularly Polarized Textile Antenna for Effective Power Transmission on a Wirelessly-Powered Sensor Platform

Autor: K. W. Lui, C. Toumazou, Olive H. Murphy
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 61:3873-3876
ISSN: 1558-2221
0018-926X
DOI: 10.1109/tap.2013.2255094
Popis: In this communication, the simulation and experimental results of a novel wideband wearable circularly polarized textile antenna for low-power transmission in the 2.45 GHz ISM band are presented. The wide impedance and axial ratio bandwidths make it perfect for low microwave power transmission to a wearable sensor system. The antenna is flexible, robust and light weight so that it can be easily integrated into clothes. It is shown that the circularly polarized textile antenna has a 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth of 564 MHz (23%) and a -10dB impedance bandwidth of 1086 MHz (44%) on a human body with the maximum gain of 4.9 dBic. Lastly, the textile antenna is employed on the battery-less temperature sensor system on a human arm to demonstrate the effective power transmission over a metre distance.
Databáze: OpenAIRE