Flexible Quasi-Yagi antenna arrays for wearable electromagnetic head imaging based on polymer technology

Abdulrahman S.M. Alqadami; Konstanty Bialkowski; Amin Abbosh

doi:10.1109/AUSMS.2018.8346991

Flexible Quasi-Yagi antenna arrays for wearable electromagnetic head imaging based on polymer technology

Abdulrahman S.M. Alqadami^*, Konstanty Bialkowski, Amin Abbosh

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A flexible, low profile, compact and wideband planar quasi-Yagi antenna array is proposed for a wearable electromagnetic head imaging system. The array is designed on a low cost, high-flexibility, and robustness polymer polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrate and is optimized to operate in a low microwave frequency band of 1.63 GHz-2.66 GHz. An array of 12 antennas is configured and embedded in a polymer-based 3D elliptical structure which is wearable. Numerical simulations using CST Microwave Studio are performed in free space, on a realistic (Hugo) human head model, and under folded conditions. The simulations results show that the proposed antennas exhibit 51% impedance bandwidth, a maximum gain of 3 dB, more than 83% of radiating efficiency and > -14 dB mutual coupling between neighboring antennas.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 Australian Microwave Symposium, AMS 2018 - Conference Proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	79-80
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538625682
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/AUSMS.2018.8346991
State	Published - 24 Apr 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	2018 Australian Microwave Symposium, AMS 2018 - Brisbane, Australia Duration: 6 Feb 2018 → 7 Feb 2018

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Name	2018 Australian Microwave Symposium, AMS 2018 - Conference Proceedings
Volume	2018-January

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Conference	2018 Australian Microwave Symposium, AMS 2018
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Brisbane
Period	6/02/18 → 7/02/18

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.

Keywords

PDMS substrate
Quasi-Yagi antenna
Wearable antenna
Wicrowave head imaging

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Instrumentation
Radiation
Computer Networks and Communications

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Alqadami, A. S. M., Bialkowski, K., & Abbosh, A. (2018). Flexible Quasi-Yagi antenna arrays for wearable electromagnetic head imaging based on polymer technology. In 2018 Australian Microwave Symposium, AMS 2018 - Conference Proceedings (pp. 79-80). (2018 Australian Microwave Symposium, AMS 2018 - Conference Proceedings; Vol. 2018-January). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/AUSMS.2018.8346991

Alqadami, Abdulrahman S.M. ; Bialkowski, Konstanty ; Abbosh, Amin. / Flexible Quasi-Yagi antenna arrays for wearable electromagnetic head imaging based on polymer technology. 2018 Australian Microwave Symposium, AMS 2018 - Conference Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018. pp. 79-80 (2018 Australian Microwave Symposium, AMS 2018 - Conference Proceedings).

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Alqadami, ASM, Bialkowski, K & Abbosh, A 2018, Flexible Quasi-Yagi antenna arrays for wearable electromagnetic head imaging based on polymer technology. in 2018 Australian Microwave Symposium, AMS 2018 - Conference Proceedings. 2018 Australian Microwave Symposium, AMS 2018 - Conference Proceedings, vol. 2018-January, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 79-80, 2018 Australian Microwave Symposium, AMS 2018, Brisbane, Australia, 6/02/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/AUSMS.2018.8346991

Flexible Quasi-Yagi antenna arrays for wearable electromagnetic head imaging based on polymer technology. / Alqadami, Abdulrahman S.M.; Bialkowski, Konstanty; Abbosh, Amin.
2018 Australian Microwave Symposium, AMS 2018 - Conference Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018. p. 79-80 (2018 Australian Microwave Symposium, AMS 2018 - Conference Proceedings; Vol. 2018-January).

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Flexible Quasi-Yagi antenna arrays for wearable electromagnetic head imaging based on polymer technology

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