scholarly journals Miniaturization and Electromagnetic Reliability of Wearable Textile Antennas

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 994
Author(s):  
Lan Yao ◽  
Erhong Li ◽  
Jiangshan Yan ◽  
Zhiyong Shan ◽  
Xinyi Ruan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Microstrip Antenna ◽  
Screen Printing ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
The Body ◽  
Screen Printing Method ◽  
Wireless Communication Network ◽  
Antenna Performance ◽  
Textile Antenna ◽  
Backward Radiation ◽  
Performance Results

The wearable textile antenna plays a decisive role in the currently increasingly wireless communication network area. To realize the miniaturization and electromagnetic reliability, a slotted full-textile microstrip antenna was designed and fabricated using the screen printing method. The measured return loss and radiation pattern were tested and compared with the simulated results. Additionally, the adhesion between the silver paste coating as the radiation element and the textile substrate was detected using sticking tape as well as observation by the microscope. To develop the designed antenna in the on-body application, the artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) was designed, optimized and fabricated. The antenna performance results showed that the existence of the AMC had a significant effect in reducing the body coupling and antenna backward radiation.

A Novel Wearable Circularly Polarized Antenna in Body-Centric Wireless Communications

2011 ◽  
Vol 403-408 ◽  
pp. 1946-1949 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ning Liu ◽  
Ying Hua Lu ◽  
Si Hai Qiu ◽  
Peng Li
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Communications ◽  
Microstrip Antenna ◽  
Absorption Rate ◽  
Specific Absorption Rate ◽  
The Body ◽  
Communication Link ◽  
Layer Model ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Textile Antenna

Wearable, textile-based antennas are dominated research topics for body-centric communications because it could be easily worn on body and integrated into clothes. Since the antenna will operate on a moving person, a circularly polarized antenna is needed in order to optimize the off-body communication link. A wearable circularly polarized textile antenna for body-centric wireless communications is designed in this paper. The proposed antenna is a square-ring microstrip antenna with truncated corners with the bandwidth of 9% when off the body. When it is near the body, we simulate the human body as three-layer model including skin, fat and muscle and put the antenna at different distances to the body. The situation of antenna bending is also simulated at different radii. Specific Absorption Rate was evaluated at last.

scholarly journals Evaluation of a Textile PIFA for Wearable IoT Application and its Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-302
Author(s):  
Hadi Aliakbarian ◽  
Azadeh Hajiahmadi ◽  
Nordiana Mohamad Saaid ◽  
Ping Jack Soh
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
The Body ◽  
Link Quality ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Antenna Performance ◽  
Textile Antenna ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Transceiver Module ◽  
Conductive Textile

The ever increasing use of body-worn systems in the Internet of Things application such as needs better antenna subsystem designs compatible with its requirements. Several challenges limiting the performance of a body-worn system, from materials, and environmental conditions  to the effects of on body application and its hazards are discussed. As a test case, a flexible textile planar inverted-F antenna is presented and discussed. The choice of this topology is due to its simplicity in design and fabrication, relatively broad bandwidth and the presence of a rear ground plane, which minimizes the impacts of the human body on the antenna performance. It is designed on a felt substrate, whereas Aaronia-shield conductive textile is utilized as its  conductive parts (radiator, shorting wall and ground plane). The antenna performance are studied in two cases, first in free space and then in bent conditions in the close proximity to the human body. The influence of the relative humidity on the textile antenna performance is also investigated numerically. Simulated and measured results indicated good agreements. Finally, the proposed antenna is integrated with a transceiver module and evaluated on the body in practice. Its wireless link quality is assessed in an indoor laboratory.

scholarly journals Enhancing Formaldehyde Selectivity of SnO2 Gas Sensors with the ZSM-5 Modified Layers

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 3947
Author(s):  
Wei Wang ◽  
Qinyi Zhang ◽  
Ruonan Lv ◽  
Dong Wu ◽  
Shunping Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Gas Sensors ◽  
Indoor Air ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Screen Printing ◽  
Gas Sensing ◽  
Oxide Semiconductors ◽  
Screen Printing Method ◽  
Gas Sensing Properties ◽  
Zeolite Films ◽  
Insufficient Knowledge

High performance formaldehyde gas sensors are widely needed for indoor air quality monitoring. A modified layer of zeolite on the surface of metal oxide semiconductors results in selectivity improvement to formaldehyde as gas sensors. However, there is insufficient knowledge on how the thickness of the zeolite layer affects the gas sensing properties. In this paper, ZSM-5 zeolite films were coated on the surface of the SnO2 gas sensors by the screen printing method. The thickness of ZSM-5 zeolite films was controlled by adjusting the numbers of screen printing layers. The influence of ZSM-5 film thickness on the performance of ZSM-5/SnO2 gas sensors was studied. The results showed that the ZSM-5/SnO2 gas sensors with a thickness of 19.5 μm greatly improved the selectivity to formaldehyde, and reduced the response to ethanol, acetone and benzene at 350 °C. The mechanism of the selectivity improvement to formaldehyde of the sensors was discussed.

scholarly journals Synthesis of NTC thermistors with screen printing method from natural yarosite minerals

2021 ◽  
Vol 1053 (1) ◽  
pp. 012012
Author(s):  
Iga Purwitasari Aningratri ◽  
Nazriati Nazriati ◽  
Dani Gustaman Syarif
Keyword(s):  
Screen Printing ◽  
Screen Printing Method ◽  
Ntc Thermistors ◽  
Printing Method

Structural and Dielectric Properties of Screen Printed PZT(70/30) Multilayered Thick Films

2007 ◽  
Vol 124-126 ◽  
pp. 663-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung Gap Lee ◽  
Sang Man Park ◽  
Young Jae Shim ◽  
Young Chul Rhee
Keyword(s):  
Screen Printing ◽  
Remanent Polarization ◽  
Thick Films ◽  
Sol Gel ◽  
Relative Dielectric Constant ◽  
Polycrystalline Structure ◽  
Coating Solution ◽  
Screen Printing Method ◽  
Xrd Patterns ◽  
Printing Method

PZT(70/30) powder was prepared by a sol-gel method and PZT thick films were fabricated by the screen-printing method on the alumina substrates. The coating and drying procedure was repeated 4 times. And then the PZT(30/70) precusor solution was spin-coated on the PZT thick films. A concentration of a coating solution was 0.5 mol/L and the number of coating was varied from 0 to 6. The porosity decreased and the grain size increased with increasing the number of coatings. The thickness of the PZT-6(6: number of coatings) films was about 60~65μm. All PZT thick films showed the typical XRD patterns of a typical perovskite polycrystalline structure. The relative dielectric constant of the PZT-6 thick film was 540. The remanent polarization and coercive field of the PZT-6 film were 23.6 μC /cm2, 12.0 kV/cm, respectively.

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