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Meta-Wearable Antennas—A Review of Metamaterial Based Antennas in Wireless Body Area Networks
Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has attracted more and more attention in many sectors of society. As a critical component in these systems, wearable antennas suffer from several serious challenges, e.g., electromagnetic coupling between the human body and the antennas, different physical deformati...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7795164/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33396333 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14010149 |
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description | Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has attracted more and more attention in many sectors of society. As a critical component in these systems, wearable antennas suffer from several serious challenges, e.g., electromagnetic coupling between the human body and the antennas, different physical deformations, and widely varying operating environments, and thus, advanced design methods and techniques are urgently needed to alleviate these limitations. Recent developments have focused on the application of metamaterials in wearable antennas, which is a prospective area and has unique advantages. This article will review the key progress in metamaterial-based antennas for WBAN applications, including wearable antennas involved with composite right/left-handed transmission lines (CRLH TLs), wearable antennas based on metasurfaces, and reconfigurable wearable antennas based on tunable metamaterials. These structures have resulted in improved performance of wearable antennas with minimal effects on the human body, which consequently will result in more reliable wearable communication. In addition, various design methodologies of meta-wearable antennas are summarized, and the applications of wearable antennas by these methods are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-77951642021-01-10 Meta-Wearable Antennas—A Review of Metamaterial Based Antennas in Wireless Body Area Networks Zhang, Kai Soh, Ping Jack Yan, Sen Materials (Basel) Review Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has attracted more and more attention in many sectors of society. As a critical component in these systems, wearable antennas suffer from several serious challenges, e.g., electromagnetic coupling between the human body and the antennas, different physical deformations, and widely varying operating environments, and thus, advanced design methods and techniques are urgently needed to alleviate these limitations. Recent developments have focused on the application of metamaterials in wearable antennas, which is a prospective area and has unique advantages. This article will review the key progress in metamaterial-based antennas for WBAN applications, including wearable antennas involved with composite right/left-handed transmission lines (CRLH TLs), wearable antennas based on metasurfaces, and reconfigurable wearable antennas based on tunable metamaterials. These structures have resulted in improved performance of wearable antennas with minimal effects on the human body, which consequently will result in more reliable wearable communication. In addition, various design methodologies of meta-wearable antennas are summarized, and the applications of wearable antennas by these methods are discussed. MDPI 2020-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7795164/ /pubmed/33396333 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14010149 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Zhang, Kai Soh, Ping Jack Yan, Sen Meta-Wearable Antennas—A Review of Metamaterial Based Antennas in Wireless Body Area Networks |
title | Meta-Wearable Antennas—A Review of Metamaterial Based Antennas in Wireless Body Area Networks |
title_full | Meta-Wearable Antennas—A Review of Metamaterial Based Antennas in Wireless Body Area Networks |
title_fullStr | Meta-Wearable Antennas—A Review of Metamaterial Based Antennas in Wireless Body Area Networks |
title_full_unstemmed | Meta-Wearable Antennas—A Review of Metamaterial Based Antennas in Wireless Body Area Networks |
title_short | Meta-Wearable Antennas—A Review of Metamaterial Based Antennas in Wireless Body Area Networks |
title_sort | meta-wearable antennas—a review of metamaterial based antennas in wireless body area networks |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7795164/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33396333 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14010149 |
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