A Wearable PIFA With an All-Textile Metasurface for 5 GHz WBAN Applications

Guo Ping Gao; Chen Yang; Bin Hu; Rui Feng Zhang; Shao Fei Wang

doi:10.1109/LAWP.2018.2889117

A Wearable PIFA With an All-Textile Metasurface for 5 GHz WBAN Applications

Guo Ping Gao
, Chen Yang
, Bin Hu^*
, Rui Feng Zhang
, Shao Fei Wang

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Article number	8585049
Pages (from-to)	288-292
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Volume	18
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2018.2889117
Publication status	Published - Feb 2019
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Gain enhancement
metasurface antenna (MSA)
miniaturization
wearable all-textile antenna
wireless body area network (WBAN)

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