Maria Lucia Scarpello

TL;DR: A flexible folded slot dipole implantable antenna operating in the Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) band (2.4-2.4835 GHz) for biomedical applications is presented in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed to cover textile antennas by a breathable thermoplastic polyurethane coating, protecting the antennas against water absorption and corrosion, and compared the performance of wearable antennas produced by screen printing conductive ink onto a textile substrate.

TL;DR: Performance investigations on a realized prototype showed an excellent behavior in open space and a slight performance degradation when textiles and/or human body are present, however, the performance of the proposed antenna are sufficiently satisfactory and promising for application in wearable textile systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that covering the antennas with the TPU layer not only protects the screen-printed conductive area but also prevents delamination of the multilayered textile fabric substrates, making the antennas washable for up to 20 cycles.

TL;DR: In this article, path loss is studied in the heterogeneous anatomical model of a 6-year male child from the Virtual Family using an implantable slot dipole conformal flexible antenna and an in-body path loss model is proposed at 2.45 GHz with application to implants in a human body.