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http://dx.doi.org/10.5916/jkosme.2016.40.7.642

Design of a reconfigurable paper antenna using the origami method  

Park, Dong-Kook (Division of Electronics and Electrical Information Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University)
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Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology / v.40, no.7, 2016 , pp. 642-646 More about this Journal
Abstract
A wearable antenna made using conductive tape on paper is presented in this paper. The proposed antenna is composed of a half-wavelength conducting dipole strip and a parasitic conducting strip on the A4 copy paper. The antenna is fed at the center of the dipole strip by an SMA connector. The configuration of the proposed antenna changes according to the origami method. Therefore the radiation patterns of the antenna vary according to whether or not the paper is folded. This approach solves the problem that the reception ratio of the signal decreases because of null points in the antenna radiation pattern. The reflection coefficient and the radiation pattern of the proposed antenna at 900 MHz are evaluated using an EM simulation and measurements. It was shown that the proposed paper antenna has reconfigurable characteristics at 900 MHz when utilizing the origami method.
Keywords
Paper antenna; Origami; Wearable; Reconfigurable;
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