
The vision and ideas of wearable computing systems describe future electronic systems as an integral part of our everyday clothing that provides the wearer with such intelligent personal assistants. Recently, there has been growing interest in the antenna community to merge between wearable systems technology, ultrawideband (UWB) technology and textile technology. This work aimed to make closer steps towards real wearability by investigating the possibilities of designing wearable UWB antenna where textile materials are used for the substrate as well as the conducting parts of the designed antenna. Two types of conducting materials have been used for conducting parts, while a nonconducting fabric has been used as antenna substrate material. A set of comparative results of the proposed design were presented and discussed. Moreover, effects on the return loss by means of measurements for each fabricated antenna prototype under bent and fully wet conditions were discussed in more details.
Composite material, History, Textile, Antenna (radio), Biomedical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, FOS: Mechanical engineering, Metasurfaces for Antenna and Radar Applications, Wireless Body Area Networks in Healthcare, Structural engineering, FOS: Medical engineering, TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering, Clothing, Engineering, Information retrieval, Embedded system, Cellular telephone services industry. Wireless telephone industry, Antenna Design and Applications, Wearable Sensors, Electronic engineering, Bent molecular geometry, Wearable technology, Wearable computer, Computer science, Mechanical engineering, Materials science, TK1-9971, Archaeology, Electrical engineering, Physical Sciences, HE9713-9715, Merge (version control), Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Composite material, History, Textile, Antenna (radio), Biomedical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, FOS: Mechanical engineering, Metasurfaces for Antenna and Radar Applications, Wireless Body Area Networks in Healthcare, Structural engineering, FOS: Medical engineering, TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering, Clothing, Engineering, Information retrieval, Embedded system, Cellular telephone services industry. Wireless telephone industry, Antenna Design and Applications, Wearable Sensors, Electronic engineering, Bent molecular geometry, Wearable technology, Wearable computer, Computer science, Mechanical engineering, Materials science, TK1-9971, Archaeology, Electrical engineering, Physical Sciences, HE9713-9715, Merge (version control), Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
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