TY - GEN
T1 - A compact and robust circularly-polarized wearable antenna using an anisotropic metasurface
AU - Jiang, Zhi Hao
AU - Werner, Douglas H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/5/4
Y1 - 2016/5/4
N2 - In this paper, we present the design of a compact circularly-polarized antenna employing a truncated anisotropic metasurface. The antenna structure is comprised by a loop monopole at the top and a metallic sheet backed metasurface at the bottom, which are separated by a foam spacer. The metasurface contains an array of two by two loop resonators with edge-chamfering as well as a pair of slot cuttings on the inner periphery. The resulting antenna, operating at the 2.4 GHz ISM band, possesses a stable input impedance, axial ratio, and gain under structural deformation. Polydimethylsiloxane and silver nanowire clusters are assumed as the constitutive materials for constructing the antenna, which are extremely flexible. Hence, the proposed antenna represents an ideal candidate for integration into wearable devices which are part of a body-area network.
AB - In this paper, we present the design of a compact circularly-polarized antenna employing a truncated anisotropic metasurface. The antenna structure is comprised by a loop monopole at the top and a metallic sheet backed metasurface at the bottom, which are separated by a foam spacer. The metasurface contains an array of two by two loop resonators with edge-chamfering as well as a pair of slot cuttings on the inner periphery. The resulting antenna, operating at the 2.4 GHz ISM band, possesses a stable input impedance, axial ratio, and gain under structural deformation. Polydimethylsiloxane and silver nanowire clusters are assumed as the constitutive materials for constructing the antenna, which are extremely flexible. Hence, the proposed antenna represents an ideal candidate for integration into wearable devices which are part of a body-area network.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROPACES.2016.7465320
DO - 10.1109/ROPACES.2016.7465320
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84973551935
T3 - 2016 IEEE/ACES International Conference on Wireless Information Technology, ICWITS 2016 and System and Applied Computational Electromagnetics, ACES 2016 - Proceedings
BT - 2016 IEEE/ACES International Conference on Wireless Information Technology, ICWITS 2016 and System and Applied Computational Electromagnetics, ACES 2016 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - IEEE/ACES International Conference on Wireless Information Technology, ICWITS 2016 and System and Applied Computational Electromagnetics, ACES 2016
Y2 - 13 March 2016 through 17 March 2016
ER -