Compact, Highly Efficient, and Fully Flexible Circularly Polarized Antenna Enabled by Silver Nanowires for Wireless Body-Area Networks

• Published in: IEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems Vol. 11; no. 4; pp. 920 - 932
• Main Authors: Zhi Hao Jiang, Zheng Cui, Taiwei Yue, Yong Zhu, Werner, Douglas H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.08.2017; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Anisotropy; Antenna radiation patterns; Body area networks; Circular polarization; Electromagnetic Radiation; Equipment Design; Form factors; Ground plane; Humans; Linear polarization; Loaded antennas; Nanotechnology; Nanowires; Off-body communications; Patch antennas; Polarized radiation; Polydimethylsiloxane; polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS); Robustness (mathematics); Silicone resins; Silver; silver nanowires (AgNWs); Substrates; wearable antenna; Wearable Electronic Devices; Wearable technology; wireless body-area networks; Wireless communication; Wireless networks; Wireless Technology
• ISSN: 1932-4545; 1940-9990; 1940-9990
• DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2017.2671841

A compact and flexible circularly polarized (CP) wearable antenna is introduced for wireless body-area network systems at the 2.4 GHz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band, which is implemented by employing a low-loss composite of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and silver nanowires (AgNWs). Th...