A Bio-degradable Textile-Based Graphene Antenna for the 5G Smart Wearables

Thompson, Owain; Alkaraki, Shaker; Abbasi, Qammer H.; Jilani, Syeda Fizzah; Evans, David Andrew

Abstract

This paper proposes a bio-degradable antenna design well-suited for the 5 th generation (5G) wearables. This antenna has a graphene patterning instead of conventional metallization on a textile substrate to make it eco-friendly as it avoids copper corrosion due to repeated washing of the wearable garments. The antenna design incorporates coplanar waveguide (CPW) feeding and directive stubs to converge the radiation pattern. The antenna patch footprint is reduced by fitting the radiating length into a small area by inserting the cut-outs through an iterative design process. The proposed antenna offers a bandwidth that covers the proposed newly launched 5G band (i.e., 3.4-3.8 GHz) with a resonant frequency at 3.55 GHz, realized gain of 4.11 dB, and an efficiency of 83%.

Citation

Thompson, O., Alkaraki, S., Abbasi, Q. H., Jilani, S. F., & Evans, D. A. (2022, March). A Bio-degradable Textile-Based Graphene Antenna for the 5G Smart Wearables. Presented at 2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Madrid, Spain

• Presentation Conference Type: Edited Proceedings
• Conference Name: 2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
• Start Date: Mar 27, 2022
• End Date: Apr 1, 2022
• Acceptance Date: Mar 27, 2023
• Online Publication Date: May 11, 2022
• Publication Date: Mar 27, 2022
• Deposit Date: Sep 26, 2023
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Pages: 1-4
• Book Title: 2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
• ISBN: 9781665416047
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.23919/eucap53622.2022.9769657
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/25077235
• Publisher URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9769657