DocumentCode
2361052
Title
Textile UWB antenna for on-body communications
Author
Klemm, Maciej ; Tröster, Gerhard
Author_Institution
Centre for Communications Research, Electromagnetics Group, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, BS8 1UB, UK
fYear
2006
fDate
6-10 Nov. 2006
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
4
Abstract
This paper presents UWB textile antenna designed for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) applications [1]. Designed textile antenna offers a possibility of integration into clothing due to a small thickness (0.5mm) and flexibility. Measured return loss and radiation pattern characteristics of textile UWB antennas agree well with simulations. Moreover, measurements showed that this textile antenna has good transient performance when operating on the human body. In on-body communication scenario, transmitted pulses have similar duration (0.34¿0.43ns) for different distances between the antenna and body (2¿20mm).
Keywords
Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Biological system modeling; Body sensor networks; Clothing; Humans; Loss measurement; Textiles; Transmitting antennas; Ultra wideband antennas;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Antennas and Propagation, 2006. EuCAP 2006. First European Conference on
Conference_Location
Nice
Print_ISBN
978-92-9092-937-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/EUCAP.2006.4584865
Filename
4584865
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