TY - GEN
T1 - A foldable textile patch for modular snap-on-button-based wearable antennas
AU - Chen, Shengjian Jammy
AU - Ranasinghe, Damith Chinthana
AU - Fumeaux, Christophe
PY - 2016/9/19
Y1 - 2016/9/19
N2 - A concept of modular textile antenna design with commercial snap-on buttons has been proposed recently for wearable applications. The concept was shown to provide passive system reconfigurabilities in regard to resonance frequency and polarization without modifications to the feeding structure. As an extension of this work, a foldable patch module is presented in this paper for the antenna concept, demonstrating further passive discrete resonance frequency modularity at 8, 9 and 10 GHz. Through a simple folding of the textile radiating element at predetermined lengths denoted by position markers, particular resonance frequencies can be manually interchanged. Prototype-based experimental characterization shows a good agreement with simulations, which indicates that the foldable module performs as expected. This design emphasizes that the reported modular antenna design promotes a practical, low-manufacture-cost, low-maintenance-cost, passive and versatile solution to reconfigure system characteristics for multi-functional wearable systems.
AB - A concept of modular textile antenna design with commercial snap-on buttons has been proposed recently for wearable applications. The concept was shown to provide passive system reconfigurabilities in regard to resonance frequency and polarization without modifications to the feeding structure. As an extension of this work, a foldable patch module is presented in this paper for the antenna concept, demonstrating further passive discrete resonance frequency modularity at 8, 9 and 10 GHz. Through a simple folding of the textile radiating element at predetermined lengths denoted by position markers, particular resonance frequencies can be manually interchanged. Prototype-based experimental characterization shows a good agreement with simulations, which indicates that the foldable module performs as expected. This design emphasizes that the reported modular antenna design promotes a practical, low-manufacture-cost, low-maintenance-cost, passive and versatile solution to reconfigure system characteristics for multi-functional wearable systems.
KW - Substrates
KW - Resonant frequency
KW - Microstrip antennas
KW - Microstrip
KW - Biomedical monitoring
KW - Loaded antennas
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84992079906&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DP160103039
U2 - 10.1109/URSI-EMTS.2016.7571535
DO - 10.1109/URSI-EMTS.2016.7571535
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84992079906
T3 - 2016 URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, EMTS 2016
SP - 842
EP - 845
BT - 2016 URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, EMTS 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
T2 - 2016 URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, EMTS 2016
Y2 - 14 August 2016 through 18 August 2016
ER -