Textile diamond dipoles for body centric communications at 2.45GHZ and 5.8GHZ

This study proposes textile diamond dipoles for body centric communication that operate at 2.45GHz and 5.8GHz. The proposed antennas have been rigorously tested under wearable and body centric measurements. Both substrates and conducting parts of the diamond dipoles are entirely made of textiles; wh...

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Main Authors: Kamardin, K., Rahim, M. K. A., Samsuri, N. A., Jalil, M. E., Daud, S. M., Sam, S. M., Ahmad, N. A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asian Research Publishing Network 2016
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/71605/1/KamiliaKamardin2016_TextileDiamondDipolesforBodyCentric.pdf
http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/71605/
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Summary:This study proposes textile diamond dipoles for body centric communication that operate at 2.45GHz and 5.8GHz. The proposed antennas have been rigorously tested under wearable and body centric measurements. Both substrates and conducting parts of the diamond dipoles are entirely made of textiles; which is deemed fit for wearable communications. Experiments such as bending, wetness and SAR were performed to investigate the antennas' performance for body communication realization. Bending was found not to cause any significant performance disruption. On the other hand, since the proposed antenna is not made of water-proof material, the performance was distorted under wet condition. However, once the antenna was dried out, the original performance was achieved. SAR measurement was also conducted and significant SAR values were observed when placing the proposed diamond dipoles close to human body.