TY - GEN
T1 - Dual-band Flexible Antenna with AMC backing for Wearable Applications
AU - Zhang, Xiaojie
AU - Jiang, Zhenzhen
AU - Leach, Mark
AU - Wang, Zhao
AU - Wang, Jingchen
AU - Zhang, Wenzhang
AU - Pei, Rui
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 IEEE.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - This paper presents a dual-band flexible antenna with artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) backing for wearable applications. The proposed antenna is designed on a textile material with an overall size of 14 mm × 35 mm × 2 mm. It operates at 2.45 GHz (Industrial Scientific Medical band) and 5.8 GHz (WLAN band) for communications. An AMC reflector with a four-leaf clover-like unit cell is designed and optimized to provide two zero-crossing phases at the desired frequencies and act as a planar reflector. Simulation results show that the AMC reflector enhances the antenna realized gain from 1.80 dB to 3.09 dB at 2.45 GHz, and from 3.86 dB to 6.12 dB at 5.8 GHz. Therefore, the proposed flexible antenna with AMC backing could be a suitable candidate for wearable applications.
AB - This paper presents a dual-band flexible antenna with artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) backing for wearable applications. The proposed antenna is designed on a textile material with an overall size of 14 mm × 35 mm × 2 mm. It operates at 2.45 GHz (Industrial Scientific Medical band) and 5.8 GHz (WLAN band) for communications. An AMC reflector with a four-leaf clover-like unit cell is designed and optimized to provide two zero-crossing phases at the desired frequencies and act as a planar reflector. Simulation results show that the AMC reflector enhances the antenna realized gain from 1.80 dB to 3.09 dB at 2.45 GHz, and from 3.86 dB to 6.12 dB at 5.8 GHz. Therefore, the proposed flexible antenna with AMC backing could be a suitable candidate for wearable applications.
KW - artificial magnetic conductors (AMC)
KW - flexible antennas
KW - wearable applications
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85208939767&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IWS61525.2024.10713691
DO - 10.1109/IWS61525.2024.10713691
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85208939767
T3 - 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Wireless Symposium, IWS 2024 - Proceedings
BT - 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Wireless Symposium, IWS 2024 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 11th IEEE MTT-S International Wireless Symposium, IWS 2024
Y2 - 16 May 2024 through 19 May 2024
ER -