TY - GEN
T1 - Flexible Substrate Materials for Wearable Antennas
AU - Dang, Quoc Hung
AU - Chen, Shengjian Jammy
AU - Zhang, Donald Dong
AU - Kimtai, Dennis David
AU - Fumeaux, Christophe
PY - 2020/2
Y1 - 2020/2
N2 - Several flexible substrate materials potentially usable for wearable antennas are presented in this paper, including rubber, leather and foam. The measured electrical characteristics are compared to show their pros and cons in view of wearable antenna design. Two planar inverted-F antennas based on two promising materials are designed, fabricated and measured. Material characteristics and experimental results suggest that natural rubber, which has a relative permittivity of around 6.4 is an appropriate flexible material for wearable antennas.
AB - Several flexible substrate materials potentially usable for wearable antennas are presented in this paper, including rubber, leather and foam. The measured electrical characteristics are compared to show their pros and cons in view of wearable antenna design. Two planar inverted-F antennas based on two promising materials are designed, fabricated and measured. Material characteristics and experimental results suggest that natural rubber, which has a relative permittivity of around 6.4 is an appropriate flexible material for wearable antennas.
KW - Flexible materials
KW - PIFA
KW - Wearable antennas
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85084176203&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DP160103039
U2 - 10.1109/ams48904.2020.9059490
DO - 10.1109/ams48904.2020.9059490
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - 2020 4th Australian Microwave Symposium, AMS 2020
BT - 2020 4th Australian Microwave Symposium, AMS 2020
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ER -