Projects:2018s1-195 Novel Flexible Materials for Wearable Antennas
Project Team
Donald Dong Zhang
Dennis David Kimtai
Supervisors
Professor Christophe Fumeaux
Dr Shengjian (Jammy) Chen
Background and Motivation
The reliability of wearable communication systems can benefit from high performance antennas integrated into clothing. Emerging wearable communications systems will increasingly require flexible antennas which can be integrated into clothing and are able to adapt their shape to various movement of the body. This will allow exploiting the area of clothing to create efficient antennas in critical applications such as communications and tracking for defence or safety personnel, or monitoring of patients in a hospital.
Aims and Objectives
This project considers the use of widely available flexible materials as substrates for the realization of wearable antennas. The project focuses on material characterization and related design aspects. It involves antenna theory and computer-assisted design with state of the art electromagnetic simulations tools.
