Meta-Wearable Antennas-A Review of Metamaterial Based Antennas in Wireless Body Area Networks

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has attracted more and more attention in many sectors of society. As a critical component in these systems, wearable antennas suffer from several serious challenges, e.g., electromagnetic coupling between the human body and the antennas, different physical deformati...

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Published in:Materials 2020-12, Vol.14 (1), p.149
Main Authors: Zhang, Kai, Soh, Ping Jack, Yan, Sen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antennas
Body area networks
Communication
Communications networks
Critical components
Design techniques
Electromagnetic coupling
Human body
Metamaterials
Permeability
Physiology
Review
Transmission lines
Wearable technology
Wireless networks
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Summary:Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has attracted more and more attention in many sectors of society. As a critical component in these systems, wearable antennas suffer from several serious challenges, e.g., electromagnetic coupling between the human body and the antennas, different physical deformations, and widely varying operating environments, and thus, advanced design methods and techniques are urgently needed to alleviate these limitations. Recent developments have focused on the application of metamaterials in wearable antennas, which is a prospective area and has unique advantages. This article will review the key progress in metamaterial-based antennas for WBAN applications, including wearable antennas involved with composite right/left-handed transmission lines (CRLH TLs), wearable antennas based on metasurfaces, and reconfigurable wearable antennas based on tunable metamaterials. These structures have resulted in improved performance of wearable antennas with minimal effects on the human body, which consequently will result in more reliable wearable communication. In addition, various design methodologies of meta-wearable antennas are summarized, and the applications of wearable antennas by these methods are discussed.
ISSN:1996-1944
1996-1944
DOI:10.3390/ma14010149