Parallel feed wearable ZigBee antenna with symmetry meander lines
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Hu, Bin; He, Lele; Gao, Guoping
- Source
- 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 2015 IEEE International Symposium on. :2357-2358 Jul, 2015
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Antenna measurements
Biomedical monitoring
Bandwidth
Textiles
Zigbee
Antenna feeds
- Language
- ISSN
- 1522-3965
1947-1491
A flexile, compact textile antenna that operates in the 2.4 GHz Zigbee band is proposed. The substrate and conductive plane are constructed by textile materials, which make it is easily to be integrated with clothes and also comfortable to be wear. Two types of conductive materials are used to form the radiation element and ground plane. The measured result shows that the impedance bandwidth of antenna with SH is 5.1% and antenna with CFT is 1.62%. The minimum value of S 11 of antenna with SH is −22.96 dB and antenna with CFT is −25.77 dB. The effects of human body and antenna bending are studied in this letter. The simulated and measured results show that the proposed antenna is very suitable for body area network.