Textile UWB Antenna with Metamaterial for Healthcare Monitoring

A new metamaterial-based UWB band-notched textile antenna for body area network (BAN) with an operational frequency range of 3 GHz to 11 GHz is created in this paper. The ultra-ide band (UWB) frequency band is covered by the antenna (3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz). The antennas are smaller because of the usage of denim (jeans) material, which has a permittivity of 1.67. To increase the impedance transmission capacity, the ground plane is reduced to a partly rectangular conductive substance. The hexagonal cut on the bottom side is utilised to boost bandwidth by enhancing the electric field dispersion at the edges. The fabrication is built of a 1 mm thick denim (jeans) substrate, and the feed is a traditional microstrip feed. The return loss and gain characteristics of the proposed antenna are investigated. The performance of a specified antenna is investigated step by step with variable feed length, feed breadth, and substrate properties.

Dual-band all textile antenna with AMC for heartbeat monitor and pacemaker control applications

All textile integrated dual-band monopole antenna with an artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) is proposed. The proposed design operates at 2.4 and 5.8 GHz for wearable medical applications to monitor the heartbeat. A flexible and low-profile E- shaped CPW dual-band textile antenna is integrated with a 4 × 4 dual-band textile AMC reflector to enhance the gain and specific absorption rate (SAR). The SAR is reduced by nearly 95% at both 1 and 10 g. The design was measured on the body with a 2 mm separation. The simulated and measured results appear in high agreement in the case of with and without AMC array integration. The measurement was performed in the indoor environment and in an anechoic chamber to validate the design based on reflection coefficient and radiation pattern measurements.

Early Stage Breast Cancer Detection Using Wearable Health Diagnosis System

The most prevalent cancer that threatens women’s life is Breast cancer. According to WHO Statistics in 2020, 2.3 Million Women were diagnosed with Breast cancer and 685000 death rate were disclosed globally. In this paper, Wearable Health Diagnosis System (WHDS) based antenna for the identification of the early breast cancer is discussed. Conventional methods are limited by their uncomfortable testing setups, panic environment and failure in results. Recently, textile based antenna for microwave imaging stared to work on the detection of the cancer cells at the earlier stage in breast. WHDS antenna has the requirements of wider bandwidth, high resolution, low Specific Absorption Rate (SAR), bio compatibility, and flexibility. The proposed work is based on the textile antenna using Denim substrate (permittivity = 1.67, thickness = 2 mm) to diagnosis the Early Breast Cancer Tissues (EBCT). Using the following antenna parameters (return loss, E-filed, H-field and SAR values), the position and malignancy of the EBCT is identified. Since the dielectric properties of the cancer cells are high, the influence of the effective permittivity is higher on the E-field and SAR. Along with the above parameters, comparison of various substrate materials (Denim, FR4, and RT duroid) were also tested and Denim is selected for our application as it introduces greater reflection co-efficient and wider bandwidth. The proposed antenna is designed to operate at a frequency of 2–4 GHz. This miniaturised antenna has a volume of 30 × 28 × 2 mm3.

Evaluation of a Textile PIFA for Wearable IoT Application and its Challenges

The ever increasing use of body-worn systems in the Internet of Things application such as needs better antenna subsystem designs compatible with its requirements. Several challenges limiting the performance of a body-worn system, from materials, and environmental conditions to the effects of on body application and its hazards are discussed. As a test case, a flexible textile planar inverted-F antenna is presented and discussed. The choice of this topology is due to its simplicity in design and fabrication, relatively broad bandwidth and the presence of a rear ground plane, which minimizes the impacts of the human body on the antenna performance. It is designed on a felt substrate, whereas Aaronia-shield conductive textile is utilized as its conductive parts (radiator, shorting wall and ground plane). The antenna performance are studied in two cases, first in free space and then in bent conditions in the close proximity to the human body. The influence of the relative humidity on the textile antenna performance is also investigated numerically. Simulated and measured results indicated good agreements. Finally, the proposed antenna is integrated with a transceiver module and evaluated on the body in practice. Its wireless link quality is assessed in an indoor laboratory.

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ON DIFFERENT FEEDING TECHNIQUES OF TEXTILE ANTENNA FOR GPS-L1 APPLICATION

This paper presents a comparative analysis of textile antenna using different feeding techniques for Global Positioning System (GPS-L1) application. Textile materials which are commonly used in the wearable application has gained much attention due to the flexibility and conformability characteristic of the antenna. Nevertheless, the flexibility of this antenna will introduce the bending and stretching element to its physical structure that may degrades the performance. To ensure the maximum power transfer takes place takes place between the source and the antenna, a suitable feeding method must be identified. In this paper, the microstrip feedline technique and coaxial feeding technique will be studied comparatively using Felt textile material as the substrate with the relative permittivity, ?r of 1.098 and tangent loss, ? of 0.0395. It is attached to a copper tape which act as the conductive material with thickness of 0.035 mm. Using Computer Simulation Technology (CST) Microwave Studio software, the result will be analysed comparatively from the performance validation in return loss, gain, bandwidth, directivity and radiation pattern