Sub-6G Metamaterial-Based Flexible Wearable UWB Antenna for IoT and WBAN

Tale Saeidi, Sarmad Nozad Mahmood, Sameer Alani, Shahid M. Ali, Idris Ismail, Adam R.H. Alhawari

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Abstract

This paper presents a metamaterial-based flexible wearable ultra-wideband antenna at sub-6G frequency bands applied to the Internet of things (IoT) and wireless body area network (WBAN) applications. The miniaturized proposed wearable antenna comprises two layers of denim (10 × 10 mm2) and felt (10 × 15 mm2). Furthermore, the elliptical patch is loaded with an L-shaped slot, a stub at the back, and chamfered ground to remove the stopbands and improve the bandwidth (BW). Then, the antenna is integrated with 6 arrays of modified grain rice shape within a Split ring resonator (SRR) to enhance the bandwidth, gain, and directivity. The proposed antenna presents a broad BW (6.5-35 GHz), maximum gain and directivity of 8.85 dBi and 10 dBi, and > 80 % efficiency over its operating frequency band. Besides, the antenna shows good agreement between the simulated and measured results offering better performance as compared to the similar existing antennas while showing smaller dimensions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE 18th International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, IEEE 18th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing and IEEE 5th Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages7-13
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781728166094
ISBN (Print)9781728166100
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Nov 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event18th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, 18th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing and 5th IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress - Virtual, Calgary, Canada
Duration: 17 Aug 202022 Aug 2020

Conference

Conference18th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, 18th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing and 5th IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress
Abbreviated titleDASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech 2020
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVirtual, Calgary
Period17/08/2022/08/20

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