Flexible UWB organic antenna for wearable technologies application

Zahir Hamouda; Jean-luc Wojkiewicz; Alexander A. Pud; Lamine Kone; Said Bergheul; Tuami Lasri

Flexible UWB organic antenna for wearable technologies application

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Author(s): Zahir Hamouda^{1, 2, 3} ; Jean-luc Wojkiewicz⁴ ; Alexander A. Pud⁵ ; Lamine Kone² ; Said Bergheul¹ ; Tuami Lasri²
- Affiliations: 1: Institut d'Aéronautique et des Etudes Spatiales, Université Saad Dahlab , Blida 1 , Algeria ;
  2: Institut d'Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie (IEMN) , France ;
  3: Ecole Supérieure des Techniques de l'Aéronautiques (ESTA) , Alger , Algeria ;
  4: Mines Douai , SAGE, F-59508 Douai , France ;
  5: Institut of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry of NASU , 02160 Kyiv , Ukraine
Source: Volume 12, Issue 2, 07 February 2018, p. 160 – 166
DOI: 10.1049/iet-map.2017.0189 , Print ISSN 1751-8725, Online ISSN 1751-8733

Received 11/04/2017, Accepted 18/09/2017, Revised 01/08/2017, Published 19/09/2017

New generations of printed flexible antennas are playing an important role in wireless communication systems. The ultra wide band and wearable possibilities are critical aspects of these kinds of antennas. In this study, the proposed antenna is an elliptical monopole fed by a coplanar waveguide; it uses a kapton substrate and it is optimised to work from 1 to 8 GHz. In the case of copper, a conductive nanocomposite material based on a polymer (polyaniline: PANI) and charged by multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) is exploited. The flexibility of both the kapton substrate and the nanocomposite (PANI/MWCNTs) provides the ability to crumple the antenna paving the way to potential applications for body-worn wireless communications systems. In this study, the performance of the antenna is investigated in terms of return loss, radiation patterns and gain for both crumpled and uncrumpled antennas. The results confirm that performance remains at a good level when the antenna is crumpled.

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