Novel Textile Antennas for Wearable Wireless Communications

Project description

Emerging wearable communications systems will increasingly require flexible antennas, in particular antennas which can be integrated into clothing and are able to adapt their shape to body movement. This will allow exploiting the area of clothing to create efficient antennas in critical applications such as communications, tracking for defence or safety personnel, and monitoring of patients in a hospital. Novel conductive materials including textiles and threads are very suitable conductors for wearable antenna designs, as they combine high radio-frequency performance and mechanical resilience to repeated deformation. Through exploiting clothing-related technology such as automated embroidery and accessories such as eyelets, buttons, and zips, one can offer a versatile platform for designing novel textile antennas dedicated to wearable wireless communication systems. The project will focus on designing novel wearable textile antennas, which involves various aspects of antenna and RF electronic technology, computer-assisted design with state-of-the-art electromagnetic simulations tools, prototype fabrication, and experiment. This research project is ideally suited for students interested in RF engineering and applied electromagnetics.

Co-supervisors

Prof. Sam Drake

Assumed knowledge

Electromagnetics and electronics.

Supervisors research focus

Dr. Chen's current research interests include antenna design and engineering, wearable technology, microwave absorbers, and electromagnetic structures using advanced materials.

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