Wearable Antennas for Off-Body Radio Links at VHF and UHF Bands: Challenges, the state of the art, and future trends below 1 GHz

P Nepa, H Rogier - IEEE antennas and Propagation Magazine, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An in-depth survey of wearable antennas for offbody radio links in the very high-frequency
(VHF) and ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) bands (below 1 GHz) is presented. The review …

Conformal propagation and near-omnidirectional radiation with surface plasmonic clothing

X Tian, Q Zeng, D Nikolayev… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless technologies are essential components of wearable devices for applications
ranging from connected healthcare to human-machine interfaces. Their performance …

Superhydrophobic properties of cotton woven fabrics with conducting 3D networks of multiwall carbon nanotubes, MWCNTs

T Makowski, D Kowalczyk, W Fortuniak, D Jeziorska… - Cellulose, 2014 - Springer
This article presents the findings concerning the preparation and properties of cotton woven
fabrics with a conductive network made of multiwall carbon nanotubes deposited on the fiber …

A wearable two-antenna system on a life jacket for Cospas-Sarsat personal locator beacons

AA Serra, P Nepa, G Manara - IEEE Transactions on antennas …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A wearable two-antenna system to be integrated on a life jacket and connected to Personal
Locator Beacons (PLBs) of the Cospas-Sarsat system is presented. Each radiating element …

A 900 MHz beam steering parasitic antenna array for wearable wireless applications

MR Islam, M Ali - IEEE transactions on antennas and …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 900 MHz wearable beam steering antenna array is proposed. A wideband driven dipole
when assisted by several varactor diode controlled parasitic dipoles allows the array beam …

High‐Gain Textile Antenna Array System for Off‐Body Communication

ML Scarpello, L Vallozzi, H Rogier… - … Journal of Antennas …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A novel high‐gain textile antenna array system, fully integrated into a rescue‐worker's vest
and operating in the Industrial, Scientific, and Medical wireless band (2.4–2.4835 GHz), is …

VHF collar integrated antenna for ground link of GPS based location system

S Yoo, KL Melde - IEEE transactions on antennas and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the design of a low-profile collar-integrated antenna operating at 154.5
MHz for use as a ground link in a GPS-based location system for wildlife tracking. The …

A design of low profile broadband discone antenna

H Zhu, H Nie, G Xie, J Qian, B Xu… - 2022 IEEE 10th Asia …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a low-profile broadband discone antenna is proposed. The edge of the
antenna's section is a gradient polyline. It is composed of discone antenna, three short …

Conformal wearable antenna design, implementation and challenges

B Chauhan, VK Srivastava, A Pal… - Next‐Generation …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The demand for wearable devices and systems has risen over the last decade. Wearable
antennas are employed for various applications, mostly on and inside wireless body field …

Embroidered flexible RF electronics

JL Volakis, L Zhang, Z Wang… - 2012 IEEE International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce a novel class of flexible Radio Frequency (RF) electronics composed of
conductive fibers on polymer or fabric substrates. The proposed fiber conductors and …