TY - GEN
T1 - Design of Compact Flexible UWB Antenna Using Different Substrate Materials for WBAN Applications
AU - Fatah, Sara Yehia Abdel
AU - Taher, Fatma
AU - Elwi, Taha A.
AU - Sree, Mohamed Fathy Abo
AU - Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad
AU - Virdee, Bal S.
AU - Livreri, Patrizia
AU - Parchin, Naser Ojaroudi
AU - See, Chan Hwang
AU - Pau, Giovanni
AU - Dayoub, Iyad
AU - Limiti, Ernesto
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - In this paper, the design process of compact flexible ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna using various substrate materials such as FR4, Kapton, and Rogers RT5880 is discussed and experimentally investigated. The proposed antenna is structured as a flexible model that can conform to suite the human body surface to be suitable for wireless body area network (WBAN) applications. The performance parameters of the antenna have been evaluated by using CST Microwave Studio software and very similar results have been achieved by applying FR4, Kapton, and Rogers RT5880 substrates, but the latter substrate provides optimized results. Therefore, the Rogers RT5880 substrate was chosen to realize the experimental antenna to validate its performance. There was excellent agreement between the simulated and measured results. The proposed antenna is miniature having dimensions of 22×28×1.6 mm3 and operates at dual band across 4.8-5.3 GHz and 7.0-8.6 GHz. It has a high gain above 5.5 dBi at both bands and radiates omnidirectionally. Moreover, it has a simple geometry making it easy to manufacture and is therefore cost effective. This antenna is applicable for wireless body area network (WBAN).
AB - In this paper, the design process of compact flexible ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna using various substrate materials such as FR4, Kapton, and Rogers RT5880 is discussed and experimentally investigated. The proposed antenna is structured as a flexible model that can conform to suite the human body surface to be suitable for wireless body area network (WBAN) applications. The performance parameters of the antenna have been evaluated by using CST Microwave Studio software and very similar results have been achieved by applying FR4, Kapton, and Rogers RT5880 substrates, but the latter substrate provides optimized results. Therefore, the Rogers RT5880 substrate was chosen to realize the experimental antenna to validate its performance. There was excellent agreement between the simulated and measured results. The proposed antenna is miniature having dimensions of 22×28×1.6 mm3 and operates at dual band across 4.8-5.3 GHz and 7.0-8.6 GHz. It has a high gain above 5.5 dBi at both bands and radiates omnidirectionally. Moreover, it has a simple geometry making it easy to manufacture and is therefore cost effective. This antenna is applicable for wireless body area network (WBAN).
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85172008472
U2 - 10.1109/PIERS59004.2023.10221357
DO - 10.1109/PIERS59004.2023.10221357
M3 - Conference Publication
AN - SCOPUS:85172008472
T3 - 2023 Photonics and Electromagnetics Research Symposium, PIERS 2023 - Proceedings
SP - 373
EP - 378
BT - 2023 Photonics and Electromagnetics Research Symposium, PIERS 2023 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2023 Photonics and Electromagnetics Research Symposium, PIERS 2023
Y2 - 3 July 2023 through 6 July 2023
ER -