Abbas, B., Khamas, S. orcid.org/0000-0001-9488-4107, Ismail, A. et al. (1 more author) (2019) Full embroidery designed electro-textile wearable tag antenna for WBAN application. Sensors, 19 (11). 2470. ISSN 1424-8220
Abstract
A flexible and totally wearable textile antenna is proposed by embroidering the conductive threads into garments. A purely polyester substrate has been utilized, which provides a tag that can be easily integrated with the clothes. The proposed tag antenna is small with dimensions of 72 × 20 × 2.75 mm3 and offers an enhanced performance in terms of gain and stability when worn on different body locations. Experimental results demonstrate an improved impedance matching owing to the elasticity of the E-shaped inductive feeder. Close agreement has been achieved between the simulated and measured results.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | WBAN; Embroidery; Electro-textile; UHF; RFID Tags; Antenna; Body-centric; Wearable |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 30 May 2019 10:58 |
Last Modified: | 28 Jun 2019 11:27 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/s19112470 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:146617 |