@inbook{1a609007397c4545b9059e5514e6a2a2,
title = "Wideband Flexible Textile Antenna with Parasitic Shorted Strips for Body-Centric Communications",
abstract = "A wearable wideband textile patch antenna with two parasitic shorted strips for off-body communications is presented. The antenna exhibits excellent mechanical resilience thanks to a highly flexible polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrate and metallized textile conductor. Two parasitic shorted strips are introduced to create a new resonance which significantly widens the overall antenna bandwidth. A stable broadside radiation lobe is generated over the operation frequency from 5.4 to 6.0 GHz for off-body communications, covering part of the 5 GHz Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) bands and the 5.8 GHz Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) bands. The antenna design is fabricated and experimentally validated, with a qualitative agreement between simulation and measurement suggesting that the proposed antenna can be utilized for off-body communications. ",
keywords = "flexible antennas, Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), textile antennas, wearable antennas",
author = "Chen, {Shengjian Jammy} and Zhihan Xu and Christophe Fumeaux",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.23919/EuCAP53622.2022.9769415",
language = "English",
series = "2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2022",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)",
note = "16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2022 ; Conference date: 27-03-2022 Through 01-04-2022",
}