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Assessment of Denim and Photo Paper Substrate-Based Microstrip Antennas for Wearable Biomedical Sensing

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The medical field has witnessed an exponential growth of wearable devices mainly due to the advancement in wireless communication and antenna technology. There is a demand for wearable antennas, which are lightweight, flexible, and ease of integration into the fabric which suits on-body applications. Therefore, this work presents the design, fabrication, and analysis of two microstrip antennas using denim cloth and stacked photo paper as substrate material. The novelty of these antennas is the use of silver fabric as ground and radiating patch-conducting layer, which has resulted in significant improvement in overall antenna performance. It is observed that our fabricated antennas have exhibited a gain of 8.71 dB with VSWR of 1.32 for denim and gain of 2.45 dB with VSWR of 1.03 for photo paper substrates respectively.

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The authors are grateful to the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, VNIT Nagpur for providing characterization facility, and centre for Microsystems, RCOEM, Nagpur for lab infrastructure. This work was also supported by RCOEM Young Faculty Research Funding Scheme and DST FIST (level-0).

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Jattalwar, N., Balpande, S.S. & Shrawankar, J.A. Assessment of Denim and Photo Paper Substrate-Based Microstrip Antennas for Wearable Biomedical Sensing. Wireless Pers Commun 115, 1993–2003 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-020-07665-9

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