Broadband Textile Hexagonal Metasurface Antenna for Wearable Applications

Rui Pei; Wenli Lu; Yuanchen Wang; Jingchen Wang; Mark Leach; Eng Gee Lim; Zhao Wang; Wenzhang Zhang; Jiafeng Zhou; Yi Huang

doi:10.1109/IMWS-AMP53428.2021.9643856

Broadband Textile Hexagonal Metasurface Antenna for Wearable Applications

Rui Pei
, Wenli Lu
, Yuanchen Wang
, Jingchen Wang
, Mark Leach
, Eng Gee Lim
, Zhao Wang
, Wenzhang Zhang
, Jiafeng Zhou
, Yi Huang

Donghua University
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
University of Liverpool

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Abstract

Wearable antennas work in close proximity to the human body and so suffer from frequency shift due to the dielectric and lossy effects of human body tissues as well as due to some bending. A wide operational bandwidth and stable performance under bending conditions are desired for wearable antenna designs. In this paper, a wearable antenna design based on a hexagonal unit cell structure is presented and the effect of bending on the antenna is analyzed. The conductive part of the antenna is embroidered with conductive threads onto a textile surface. Polymer composite is used as the substrate of the antenna. With the wideband hexagonal element design, the antenna can achieve an operation bandwidth from 4.63 GHz to 7.22 GHz and a stable realized gain of 10 dBi when attached to a voxel human body model.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2021 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)
Pages	228-230
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP53428.2021.9643856
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	2021 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications, IMWS-AMP 2021 - Chongqing, China Duration: 15 Nov 2021 → 17 Nov 2021

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Conference	2021 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications, IMWS-AMP 2021
Country/Territory	China
City	Chongqing
Period	15/11/21 → 17/11/21

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hexagonal elements
metasurface
wearable antenna

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Pei, R., Lu, W., Wang, Y., Wang, J., Leach, M., Lim, E. G., Wang, Z., Zhang, W., Zhou, J., & Huang, Y. (2021). Broadband Textile Hexagonal Metasurface Antenna for Wearable Applications. In 2021 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP) (pp. 228-230) https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP53428.2021.9643856

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Broadband Textile Hexagonal Metasurface Antenna for Wearable Applications. / Pei, Rui; Lu, Wenli; Wang, Yuanchen et al.
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