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1×4 Patch Array All-Textile Antenna for WLAN Applications

2020-09-28 , Mashaghba H.A. , Hasliza A Rahim @ Samsuddin , Ping Jack Soh , Abdulmalek Mohamedfareq , Ismahayati Adam , Muzammil Jusoh , Mohd Najib Mohd Yasin , Thennarasan Sabapathy , Khairul Najmy Abdul Rani

This paper proposes the design of 1×4 patch array all-Textile antenna for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) applications. The wearable antenna needs to have low profile and lightweight since such antenna is intended to operate in the vicinity of the human body. The key parameters are studied to determine their effects towards the performance of the antenna. The proposed design uses ShieldIt as the top radiator and ground plane, while fabric Felt is used as a substrate, sandwiched between the top radiator and ground plane.The obtained results show that there is improvement in the proposed array antenna in terms of gain enhancement and impedance bandwidth, maximum up to 143.6% and 19.08%, respectively, against single patch structure.

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A hybrid modified sine cosine algorithm using inverse filtering and clipping methods for low autocorrelation binary sequences

2022-01-01 , Rosli S.J. , Hasliza A Rahim @ Samsuddin , Khairul Najmy Abdul Rani , Ruzelita Ngadiran , Wan Azani Wan Mustafa , Abdulmalek M. , Mohd Najib Mohd Yasin , Muzammil Jusoh , Thennarasan Sabapathy , Wan Nur Suryani Firuz Wan Ariffin , Alkhayyat A.

The essential purpose of radar is to detect a target of interest and provide information concerning the target's location, motion, size, and other parameters. The knowledge about the pulse trains' properties shows that a class of signals is mainlywell suited to digital processing of increasing practical importance. A low autocorrelation binary sequence (LABS) is a complex combinatorial problem. The main problems of LABS are low Merit Factor (MF) and shorter length sequences. Besides, the maximumpossibleMF equals 12.3248 as infinity length is unable to be achieved. Therefore, this study implemented two techniques to propose a new metaheuristic algorithm based on Hybrid Modified Sine Cosine Algorithm with Cuckoo Search Algorithm (HMSCACSA) using Inverse Filtering (IF) and clipping method to achieve better results. The proposed algorithms, LABS-IF and HMSCACSA-IF, achieved better results with two large MFs equal to 12.12 and 12.6678 for lengths 231 and 237, respectively, where the optimal solutions belong to the skew-symmetric sequences. TheMFoutperformed up to 24.335% and 2.708% against the state-of-the-art LABS heuristic algorithm, xLastovka, and Golay, respectively. These results indicated that the proposed algorithm's simulation had quality solutions in terms of fast convergence curve with better optimal means, and standard deviation.

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Four-port dual-band textile MIMO antenna for biomedical health monitoring systems: on-body mutual coupling reduction characterization

2024 , Hamza A Mashagba , Hasliza A Rahim @ Samsuddin , Mohd Najib Mohd Yasin , Mohd Haizal Jamaluddin , Mohammad Tariqul Islam , Wazie M Abdulkawi , Arif Mawardi Ismail , Md. Moniruzzaman , Samir Salem Al-Bawri

The paper outlines a methodology to diminish mutual coupling in 4-port dual-band MIMO textile antenna for biomedical applications. This antenna leverages MIMO technology and Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) for operation in two distinct frequency bands at (3.5 & 2.45 GHz). The antenna is made up of four octagonal patch antennas, each having a bar and a split-ring (SR) slot with 47.2 × 31 mm2 dimensions for each patch. A hybrid mutual coupling (MC) approach was investigated with closely spaced patches (up to 0.05λ). Various bending setups have been selected along with flat case to examine the antennas’ resilience which demonstrate such agreement between measured and simulated findings. Furthermore, the MC is only −20 dB, the envelope correlation coefficient (ECC) is 0.001, and maximum peak measured gain of 5.2 dBi is achieved with lowest peak specific absorption rate (SAR) value. Even when bent at a 60° angle along with y-axis and x-axis, the antenna retains a decent gain of 1.861 dBi in the low frequency region and 5.479 dBi at high frequency band. Surprisingly, the antenna outperforms the attenuation produced by the lossy effects of the human body, indicating a favorable alignment between the modelled and observed findings.