@inproceedings{eb79ba4d983d4e47a55686000381d5f5,
title = "A Bio-degradable Textile-Based Graphene Antenna for the 5G Smart Wearables",
abstract = "This paper proposes a bio-degradable antenna design well-suited for the 5th 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\%.",
keywords = "antennas, bio-degradable, graphene, textile, wearables",
author = "Owain Thompson and Shaker Alkaraki and Abbasi, \{Qammer H.\} and Jilani, \{Syeda Fizzah\} and Evans, \{David Andrew\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 European Association for Antennas and Propagation.; 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2022 ; Conference date: 27-03-2022 Through 01-04-2022",
year = "2022",
language = "English",
series = "2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2022",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2022",
address = "United States",
}