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Design of Circularly Polarized Triple-Band Wearable Textile Antenna with Safe Low SAR for Human Health

Ashok Yadav, Vinod Kumar Singh, Pranay Yadav, Amit Kumar Beliya, Akash Kumar Bhoi, Paolo Barsocchi

2020Electronics74 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

In this manuscript, an antenna on textile (jeans) substrate is presented for the WLAN, C band and X/Ku band. This is a wearable textile antenna, which was formed on jeans fabric substrate to reduce surface-wave losses. The proposed antenna design consists of a patch and a defected ground. To energize the wearable textile antenna, a microstrip line feed technique is used in the design. The impedance band width of 23.37% (3.4–4.3 GHz), 56.48% (4.7–8.4 GHz) and 31.14% (10.3–14.1 GHz) frequency bands are observed, respectively. The axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW) of 10.10% (4.7–5.2 GHz), 4.95% (5.9–6.2 GHz) and 10.44% (11.8–13.1 GHz) frequency bands are observed, respectively. A peak gain of 4.85 dBi is analyzed at 4.1-GHz frequency during the measurement. The SAR value was calculated to observe the radiation effect and it was found that its utmost SAR value is 1.8418 W/kg and 1.919 W/kg at 5.2/5.5-GHz frequencies, which is less than 2 W/kg of 10 gm tissue. The parametric study is performed for the validation of the proper functioning of the antenna.

Topics & Concepts

Bandwidth (computing)Antenna (radio)OpticsMicrostrip antennaMicrostripGround planePhysicsMaterials scienceAcousticsOptoelectronicsElectrical engineeringTelecommunicationsEngineeringAntenna Design and AnalysisWireless Body Area NetworksMicrowave Engineering and Waveguides