Wearable Endfire Textile Antenna for On-Body Communications at 60 GHz

被引：90

作者：

Chahat, Nacer ^{[1
]}

Zhadobov, Maxim ^{[1
]}

Le Coq, Laurent ^{[1
]}

Sauleau, Ronan ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Rennes 1, CNRS, UMR 6164, IETR, F-35042 Rennes, France

来源：

IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS | 2012年 / 11卷

关键词：

Body area network (BAN); endfire radiation; millimeter waves; textile antennas; wearable antennas; Yagi-Uda; PATCH ANTENNA;

D O I：

10.1109/LAWP.2012.2207698

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

A textile endfire antenna operating in the 60-GHz band is proposed for wireless body area networks (BANs). The permittivity of the textile substrate has been accurately characterized, and the Yagi-Uda antenna has been fabricated using an ad hoc manufacturing process. Its performance in terms of reflection coefficient, radiation pattern, gain, and efficiency has been studied in free space and on a tissue-equivalent phantom representing the human body. It is shown that the antenna is matched in the 57-64-GHz band. Its measured on-body efficiency and maximum gain equal 48.0% and 11.9 dBi, respectively. To our best knowledge, this is the first textile antenna for on-body wireless communications reported at millimeter waves.

引用

页码：799 / 802

页数：4

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