Textile UWB antennas for wireless body area networks

被引：199

作者：

Klemm, Maciej ^{[1
]}

Troester, Gerhard ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] ETH, Elect Lab, Dept Informat Technol & Elect Engn, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland

来源：

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION | 2006年 / 54卷 / 11期

关键词：

body area networks; textile antennas; ultrawideband (UWB);

D O I：

10.1109/TAP.2006.883978

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 new ultrawideband (UWB) textile antenna designed for UWB wireless body area network (WBAN) applications is presented. Unlike previous textile antennas, these antennas offer a direct integration into clothing due to a very small thickness (0.5 mm) and flexibility. We have realized two different designs of textile antennas: coplanar waveguide fed printed UWB disc monopole and UWB annular slot antenna. To our knowledge, these are the first textile UWB antennas reported in the open literature. Measured return loss and radiation pattern characteristics of textile UWB antennas agree well with simulations. Moreover, measured transfer functions show that these textile antennas possess excellent transient characteristics, when operating in free space as well as on the human body. They can operate in the entire UWB band approved by the Federal Communications Commission (3.1-10.6 GHz).

引用

页码：3192 / 3197

页数：6

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