摘要
In this letter, a wearable all-textile metasurface antenna (MSA) for 5 GHz wireless body area network (WBAN) applications is proposed. All the components of the proposed MSA are made of the comfort textile materials. A metasurface with high permittivity values is placed right above a wide-bandwidth planar inverted-F antenna to realize size miniaturization and gain enhancement. The proposed MSA has a profile of 4 mm (0.07λ0) and occupies an area of 42 mm × 28 mm (0.77λ0 × 0.51λ0). Moreover, this antenna realizes a measured peak gain of 6.70 dBi, an average efficiency of 77%, and an operating band from 4.96 to 5.90 GHz that covers the 5 GHz WBAN band. In addition, the on-body studies show that the MSA is suitable for wearable applications.
源语言 | 英语 |
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文章编号 | 8585049 |
页(从-至) | 288-292 |
页数 | 5 |
期刊 | IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters |
卷 | 18 |
期 | 2 |
DOI | |
出版状态 | 已出版 - 2月 2019 |
已对外发布 | 是 |