Wearable Inkjet-Printed Wideband Antenna by Using Miniaturized AMC for Sub-GHz Applications

A novel compact wearable antenna printed on paper is presented. The antenna comprises a nonresonant coplanar monopole antenna placed on a miniaturized artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) (total size of 0.14 λ0 × 0.14 λ0 × 0.01 λ0 at 700 MHz). The manufacturing process only requires a commercial desk...

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Published in:IEEE antennas and wireless propagation letters 2016, Vol.15, p.1927-1930
Main Authors: Genovesi, Simone, Costa, Filippo, Fanciulli, Filippo, Monorchio, Agostino
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antenna measurements
Artificial magnetic conductor (AMC)
Bandwidth
Broadband antennas
Conductors
Ground plane
Ink
inkjet antenna
Inkjet printing
Microstrip antennas
miniaturization
Monopole antennas
Monopoles
on-body
Printers (data processing)
Silver
small antenna
sub-GHz
Substrates
wearable antenna
Wearable technology
wideband
wireless applications
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Summary:A novel compact wearable antenna printed on paper is presented. The antenna comprises a nonresonant coplanar monopole antenna placed on a miniaturized artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) (total size of 0.14 λ0 × 0.14 λ0 × 0.01 λ0 at 700 MHz). The manufacturing process only requires a commercial desktop inkjet printer and conductive nano-ink. The effectiveness of the proposed configuration (monopole above AMC) with respect to the unloaded monopole or to the monopole above a metallic ground plane is proved with on-body measurements in the sub-GHz band.
ISSN:1536-1225
1548-5757
DOI:10.1109/LAWP.2015.2513962