Thennarasan Sabapathy
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Thennarasan Sabapathy
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Thennarasan, Sabapathy
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Sabapathy, Thennarasan
Sabapathy, Thenna
Sabapathy, T.
Sapabathy, T.
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Flexible Co-Planar Waveguide (CPW)-Fed Y-Shaped Patch UWB Antenna for Off-Body Communication

2020-03-18 , Kassim S. , Hasliza A Rahim @ Samsuddin , Soh Ping Jack , Abdulmalek M. , Muzammil Jusoh , Jamaluddin M.H. , Sabli N.S. , Yassin M.N. , Thennarasan Sabapathy , Wee Fwen Hoon , Mohamed Nasrun Osman , Ismail N.

This paper intends to design an Ultra-Wideband (UWB) antenna for future Internet of Things (IoT) applications for off-body Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) communication. An antenna based on the Y-shaped patch fed using co-planar waveguide (CPW) line, with a full ground plane is designed. It is implemented on two different substrates, namely a 5mm thick Rogers RO4350B and a 5-mm-thick felt textile. Parametric analysis of antenna is performed by changing its critical dimensions and monitoring parameters such as gain, bandwidth, efficiency, radiation pattern when using both substrates. Besides that, the bending effects towards reflection coefficient and radiation patterns are also studied. The final patch size with the Y-shaped slot is 36 × 40 mm2 for both substrates. The antenna is capable of providing coverage for the bands from 8 to 10 GHz. Finally, the antenna designed on RO4350B substrate outperforms the antenna designed on felt by about four times in terms of bandwidth, with 3.3 GHz (7.7-11 GHz).

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5G Millimeter Wave Wearable Antenna: State-Of-the-Art and Current Challenges

2021-01-01 , Hasliza A Rahim @ Samsuddin , Mashagba H.A. , Yahaya N.Z. , Mohd Najib Mohd Yasin , Jamaluddin M.H. , Muzammil Jusoh , Thennarasan Sabapathy , Ismahayati Adam , Abdulmalek M.

Fifth Generation (5G) is the next evolution of mobile communication that will provide seamless and massive high speed connectivity to the society. Paralleled with the rise of 5G, it is foreseen that wearable devices particularly wearable antenna will be the significant end node for wearable devices in Millimeter Wave (mmWave) frequency bands. Thus, this paper discusses the new development of the 5G sub-6 GHz and mmWave wearable antenna, introduces the research results of the 5G mmWave wearable antenna in recent years, and addresses the key challenges in the development trend of the development trend of the 5G mmWave wearable antenna.

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A Fuzzy-Based Angle-of-Arrival Estimation System (AES) Using Radiation Pattern Reconfigurable (RPR) Antenna and Modified Gaussian Membership Function

2019-01-01 , Jais M.I. , Thennarasan Sabapathy , Muzammil Jusoh , R Badlishah Ahmad , Jamaluddin M.H. , Kamarudin M.R. , Ehkan P. , Murukesan Loganathan L. , Soh P.J.

Angle-of-arrival (AOA) estimation is an important factor in various wireless sensing applications, especially localization systems. This paper proposes a new type of AOA estimation sensor node, known as AOA-estimation system (AES) where the received signal strength indication (RSSI) from multiple radiation pattern reconfigurable (RPR) antennas are used to calculate the AOA. In the proposed framework, three sets of RPR antennas have been used to provide a coverage of 15 regions of radiation patterns at different angles. The salient feature of this RPR-based AOA estimation is the use of Fuzzy Inferences System (FIS) to further enhance the number of estimation points. The introduction of a modified FIS membership function (MF) based on Gaussian function resulted in an improved 85% FIS aggregation percentage between the fuzzy input and output. This later resulted in a low AOA error (of less than 5%) and root-mean-square error (of less than 8°).

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Electrically tunable left-handed textile metamaterial for microwave applications

2021-03-01 , Kabir Hossain , Thennarasan Sabapathy , Muzammil Jusoh , Soh Ping Jack , Jamaluddin M.H. , Al-Bawri S.S. , Mohamed Nasrun Osman , R Badlishah Ahmad , Hasliza A Rahim @ Samsuddin , Mohd Najib Mohd Yasin , Saluja N.

An electrically tunable, textile-based metamaterial (MTM) is presented in this work. The proposed MTM unit cell consists of a decagonal-shaped split-ring resonator and a slotted ground plane integrated with RF varactor diodes. The characteristics of the proposed MTM were first studied independently using a single unit cell, prior to different array combinations consisting of 1 × 2, 2 × 1, and 2 × 2 unit cells. Experimental validation was conducted for the fabricated 2 × 2 unit cell array format. The proposed tunable MTM array exhibits tunable left-handed characteristics for both simulation and measurement from 2.71 to 5.51 GHz and provides a tunable transmission coefficient of the MTM. Besides the left-handed properties within the frequency of interest (from 1 to 15 GHz), the proposed MTM also exhibits negative permittivity and permeability from 8.54 to 10.82 GHz and from 10.6 to 13.78 GHz, respectively. The proposed tunable MTM could operate in a dynamic mode using a feedback system for different microwave wearable applications.

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A Hybrid Mutual Coupling Reduction Technique in a Dual-Band MIMO Textile Antenna for WBAN and 5G Applications

2021-01-01 , Hamza A. Mashagba , Hasliza A Rahim @ Samsuddin , Ismahayati Adam , Jamaluddin M.H. , Mohd Najib Mohd Yasin , Muzammil Jusoh , Thennarasan Sabapathy , Abdulmalek M. , Azremi Abdullah Al-Hadi , Arif Mawardi Ismail , Soh Ping Jack

This paper presents a hybrid mutual coupling reduction technique applied onto a dual-band textile MIMO antenna for wireless body area network and 5G applications. The MIMO antenna consists of two hexagonal patch antennas, each integrated with a split-ring (SR) and a bar slot to operate in dual-band mode at 2.45 GHz and 3.5 GHz. Each patch is dimensioned at 47.2 × 31 mm2. This hybrid technique results in a simple structure, while enabling significant reduction of mutual coupling (MC) between the closely spaced patches (up to 0.1 λ). This technique combines a line patch and a patch rotation technique, explained as follows. First, a line patch is introduced at an optimized distance to enable operation with a broad impedance bandwidth at both target frequencies. One of the patches is then rotated by 90° at an optimized distance, resulting in a significant MC suppression while maintaining the dual and broad impedance bandwidth. The proposed MIMO antenna is further evaluated under several bending configurations to assess its robustness. A satisfactory agreement between simulated and measured results is observed in both planar and bending conditions. Results show that the MIMO antenna achieves an impedance bandwidth of 4.3 % and 6.79 % in the 2.45 GHz and 3.5 GHz band, respectively. Moreover, very low MC (S21 <-30 dB) is achieved, with a low (< 0.002) envelop correlation coefficient, and about 10 dB of diversity gain at both desired frequencies using this technique. Even when bent at an angle of 50° at the x-and y-axes, the antenna bent maintained a realized gain of 1.878 dBi and 4.027 dBi in the lower and upper band, respectively. A robust performance is offered by the antenna against the lossy effects of the human body with good agreements between simulated and measured results.

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Wearable UHF RFID Antenna based Metamaterial

2021-01-01 , Khamaruzaman N.S. , Muzammil Jusoh , Thennarasan Sabapathy , Mohamed Nasrun Osman , Subahir S. , Jamaluddin M.H.

This paper presents the development a wearable RFID application that is flexible, compact, low-cost, and suitable for the human body. The study's main goal is to design, build, and test a small and flexible RFID wristband tag antenna with UHF RFID operating frequency at 910 MHz. The result shows a good radiation pattern and an almost ideal VSWR which 1.09. Thus, a wearable UHF RFID tag antenna is designed with a gain of -11.87 dB for bending analysis. The tag features a meander dipole antenna with two square split-ring resonators (SRR) cells. A meander dipole antenna with two square split-ring resonators (SRR) cells is featured on the tag. It's built on a 0.277mm thick photo paper substrate with a dielectric constant of 3.2 and a loss tangent of 0.05. The proposed antenna is then combined with an RFID tag (NXP SL3S1213 UCODE G2iL chip) with an impedance of 23-j224 to evaluate its performance in terms of reflection coefficient, antenna gain, and maximum reading range. The overall size of the antenna tag dimensions is 117 mm × 26 mm.

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