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Received 12/12/2014, Published 16/04/2015
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A novel transition between a rigid-substrate and a flexible-substrate microstrip for use in wearable devices is described. The contact force between the conductors of the two microstrips is supplied by a pair of rectangular magnets. A simulation and measurement study carried out on a test jig comprising a back-to-back pair of such transitions demonstrated an insertion loss of better than 0.5 dB/transition can be achieved in the range of 0–3 GHz.

Inspec keywords: permanent magnets; wearable antennas; microstrip antennas

Other keywords: flexible-substrate; wearable devices; permanent magnets; conductors; rectangular magnets; textile-to-rigid microstrip transition; rigid-substrate; frequency 0 GHz to 3 GHz

Subjects: Single antennas; Permanent magnets

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