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  • Publication
    Design of Passive RFID Tag Using Frequency Selective Surface with Polarization Insensitive
    ( 2023-10-06) ;
    Ibrahim N.A.
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    Abdul Aziz M.E.
    RFID is not a new technology. It has been applied in various industries such as for wearable applications. Common RFID tags especially for those that have been designed and are available are not independent of the incident receiver angle. Numerous wearable antennas on the market are only designed for a certain received angle. For example, a wearable RFID antenna is used in medical as a pulse reading detector. If the patient makes any movement, the patient's pulse reading is no longer accurate or there may be no pulse reading. Hence, the purpose of this project is to design and RFID antennas using Frequency Selective Surface, FSS for wearable applications that are independent towards the incident angle and small in size. In this project, several antennas design with Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) is proposed. The design for this antenna is round, square, and hexagonal. This antenna has an operating frequency from 2.4 GHz to 5.8GHz, bandwidth efficiency> 50%, dielectric constant 1.30, independent incident angle up to 60 degrees, and has a high gain of around 2 to 3dB.
  • Publication
    Gain Enhancement of CPW Antenna for IoT Applications using FSS with Miniaturize Unit Cell
    ( 2021-07-26) ; ; ;
    Azhari M.S.B.A.
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    Jiunn N.K.
    Wireless connectivity is a critical enabler for many IoT applications. Antennas are often required to be installed inside the device cover, which usually occurs in small sizes with optimal performance. On the other hand, a suitable antenna should also have high efficiency, gain and adequate bandwidth covering the desired frequency range. Here, we proposed new type of Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) with miniaturized resonator element to enhance the gain of an CPW antenna. Furthermore, the miniaturization of the Frequency Selective Surface unit cell is attained by coupling the two meandered wire resonators. The wire resonator is separated by thin and single substrate layer. The structure of the FSS is shown to have a FSS unit cell dimension that is miniaturized to 0.057λ. The CPW antenna size is only 28.8mm × 46.5mm operating at 2.45 GHz frequency. With the additional of the FSS, the antenna's gain reaches up from 1.8 dBi to 2.6 dBi with omnidirectional radiation pattern.
  • Publication
    Development of U-Shape Slot Wearable Antenna for In-Body Communications
    The ability to have a communication with devices implanted inside a human body will cause a great improvement in current wireless medical applications technology. Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) is a medical device that could send images from inside of human's intestines to the sensor outside the body. However, this device has few disadvantages like its location cannot be detected once it entered the body and it also cannot be control from outside the body. Considering these factors, an antenna that has the ability to penetrate into human body tissues for in-body communication is proposed. UWB system has considered as the solution for future in-body communication devices since current standard does not allow high data rate wireless connections between implanted nodes. Low part of UWB frequency band which is 3.1 GHz to 5.0 GHz is used in this research in order to reduce the attenuation through the body tissues as the frequency increase. The design of this antenna has taken in consideration of the propagation medium which is the human body tissues. Simulation for the designed antenna was done in CST Software. The size of this antenna is designed to be compact and wearable on human body. The substrate used for this antenna is cotton to ensure comfort once it is placed on the human body. The results that are considered in this research are the S11, directivity and gain of the antenna. Both simulation results and measured results are compared to evaluate the ability of this antenna.
  • Publication
    Application of FSS for Microstrip Antenna for Gain Enhancement
    In this present paper, a dual-band microstrip patch antenna (MPA) using frequency selective surface (FSS) is proposed. The dual-band MPA is designed using the rectangular shaped patch with an elliptical slot at the center of the patch and full ground plane. The FSS in this paper act as a reflection plane which is loaded onto the dual-band MPA in order to improve the gain of the antenna at higher band. The FSS is obtained by the periodic array of 3 5-unit cell in the x-y direction, which based on the amalgamation of a square and circular loop elements. After merging the FSS, the gain and return loss at 5 GHz increased to 0.915 dB and -25.08 dB respectively. The dual-band MPA is simulated using the FR-4 substrate with a thickness of 1.6 mm and a relative permittivity of 4.4. The overall size of the MPA and FSS is relatively compact and easy to fabricate. The proposed antenna can be used in WiMAX and WLAN applications.