Flexible Wearable Microwave Devices: Design and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Wireless body area networks (WBANs) provide a consistent interconnection between various body-centric devices for communication and sensing. The remote patient health monitoring system, and IoT devices such as wearable smart wristwatches are examples of WBANs. The use of flexible/semi-flexible devices increases exponentially due to their numerous advantages over rigid devices, such as durability, low weight, flexibility, portability, and energy efficiency. Microwave devices, being responsible for transmitting and receiving signals, play a major role in designing a compact communication system. Researchers are looking for flexible devices with high radiation efficiency, compact size, wide bandwidth, high gain, low complexity, and robust impedance matching requirements. These devices must be compatible with clothing with a consistent performance under bending and human proximity effects, which comply with specific absorption rate (SAR) restrictions.

This Special Issue aims to publish novel ideas for fabrication and new methods to design microwave devices for wearable technology. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. We request researchers, engineers, and scientists to contribute their peer review research which explains research gaps including, but not limited to:

• Wearable antennas and sensors for healthcare;
• Body area networks;
• Flexible antennas;
• Reconfigurable antennas;
• Fabrication technology for wearable microwave devices;
• Textile sensors;
• Stretchable microwave devices.

Dr. Adnan Ghaffar
Dr. Xuejun Li
Prof. Dr. Mousa Hussein
Dr. Aayush Aneja
Guest Editors

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• wearable antennas and sensor for healthcare
• body area networks
• flexible antennas
• reconfigurable antennas
• fabrication technology for wearable microwave devices
• textile sensors
• stretchable microwave devices