Recent Submissions

  • Analysis on the effects of the human body on the performance of wearable textile antenna in substrate integrated waveguide technology 

    El Gharbi, Mariam; Ahyoud, Saida; Aknin, Noura; Gil Galí, Ignacio; Fernández García, Raúl (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)
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    A wearable textile circular ring slot antenna based on a substrate integrated waveguide cavity is presented. In this paper, the focus is on studying and understanding the technical behavior of the SIW textile antenna when ...
  • Effect of bending on a textile UHF-RFID tag antenna 

    El Bakkali, Mohamed; Martínez Estrada, Marc; Fernández García, Raúl; Gil Galí, Ignacio; El Mrabet, Otman (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)
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    In this paper, a textile UHF-RFID tag antenna at 915 MHz based on a T-match dipole loaded with circular patch on a felt fabric substrate is presented and discussed. In addition, the bending impact on the read range is ...
  • Embroidered textile capacitive sensor for sucrose solutions measurement 

    Luo, Chengyang; Fernández García, Raúl; Gil Galí, Ignacio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)
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    With the trend of textile sensors, embroidered sensors for body fluids measurements are getting attention. In this paper, an embroidered textile sensor with a capacitive spiral structure is proposed and used to measure the ...
  • A wearable system to detect urine leakage based on a textile sensor. 

    Martínez Estrada, Marc; Fernández García, Raúl; Gil Galí, Ignacio (2020)
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    In this work, a wearable system to detect urine leakage based on a textile sensor is proposed. The system consists of a capacitive sensor embroidered with a conductive yarn in a cotton/polyester substrate. A microcontroller ...
  • Yagi rectenna application to increase the battery lifetime of sensor nodes 

    Fernández García, Raúl; Gil Galí, Ignacio (The Electromagnetics Academy, 2015)
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    In this paper a Yagi rectenna application to increase the battery lifetime of sensor nodes is presented. The proposed rectenna consists of a three pole Yagi antenna plus double voltage RF to DC converter based on a HSMS-268C ...
  • Embroidered electrode impedance for polyester and cotton textile substrates 

    Logothetis, Irini; Fernández García, Raúl; Troynikov, Olga; Dabnichki, Peter; Pirogova, Elena; Gil Galí, Ignacio (2019)
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    Measuring electrical activity in the human body is vital for monitoring of patients and medical diagnostics. For accurate measurements, the design of biomedical electrodes is important. Bioelectrical impedance analysis ...
  • Study of double ring resonator embroidered wearable antennas for microwave applications 

    Moradi, Bahareh; Martínez Estrada, Marc; Fernández García, Raúl; Gil Galí, Ignacio (2019)
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    In this work, the design, implementation and test of double ring resonator (DRR) wearable antennas is carried out. Specifically, symmetrical and non-symmetrical DRRs are coupled to a transmission line by means embroidered ...
  • Developing of the smart textile for energy expenditure monitoring 

    Piedra, A.; Boqué, N; Fernández García, Raúl (2019)
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  • Textile wearable antenna sensors based on open ring resonators 

    Moradi, Bahareh; Fernández García, Raúl; Gil Galí, Ignacio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
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    In this paper, a wearable antenna sensor based on a textile open ring resonator is presented. The antenna sensor consists of an open ring resonator whose resonance frequency is modified due to the antenna bending impact. ...
  • Textile Yagi Antenna at 1.8GHz 

    Fernández García, Raúl; Gil Galí, Ignacio (2017)
    Conference lecture
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    In this work, a textile Yagi antenna on jeans fabric is designed, simulated and tested. The proposed textile antenna operates at the digital cellular service band (DCS 1800 MHz) and it has been designed by means of the ...
  • Wearable embroidered GPS textile antenna 

    Gil Galí, Ignacio; Fernández García, Raúl (2017)
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    The integration of embroidered antennas into clothing is one of the best solutions for wearable wireless communication systems, such as Global Positioning System (GPS). In this work, a wearable GPS patch antenna based on ...
  • Crosstalk characterization of fabrics elaborated with conductive yarns 

    Fernández García, Raúl; Gil Galí, Ignacio; Cano Casas, Francesc; Parés Sabatés, Ferran (2016)
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    The electrical characterization of crosstalk of fabrics elaborated with conductive yarns is investigated. The impact of the source, victim and ground traces location is reported. The experimental results show that the ...

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