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Miniaturized Wideband Flexible CPW Antenna with Hexagonal Ring Slots for Early Breast Cancer Detection

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Advances in Ubiquitous Networking (UNet 2015)

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This paper presents a miniaturized flexible microstrip antenna designed using a Liquid crystal polymer (LCP) material. The developed design consists on a hexagon radiator with two ring slots excited by a CPW feed line, providing an operating frequency in S-band at 3GHz with an important bandwidth of 600MHz. This structure offers a thin thickness (1.6mm) with an overall size of 30×20 mm2 that’s can assure an easy integration into clothes as wearable antennas used for early breast cancer detection. Modeling and performances evaluation of the proposed antenna in terms of return loss, voltage standing wave ratio, radiation pattern, and current distribution have been carried out using CST-MW STUDIO simulator.

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  1. Electrical Engineering Laboratory (LGE), Higher National School of Technical Education (ENSET), Rabat, Morocco

    Afyf Amal, Bellarbi Larbi & Achour Anouar

  2. SRTS Laboratory, National Institute of Post and Telecommunications (INPT), Rabat, Morocco

    Riouch Fatima

  3. Institute of Analytic Sciences (ISA), University of Lyon, Lyon, France

    Errachid Abdelhamid

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  1. Hassan II University of Casablanca, ENSEM Hassan II University of Casablanca, Oasis – Casablanca, Morocco

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  2. Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electricité et de Mécanique, Université Hassan II – Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco

    Hicham Medromi

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Amal, A., Larbi, B., Anouar, A., Fatima, R., Abdelhamid, E. (2016). Miniaturized Wideband Flexible CPW Antenna with Hexagonal Ring Slots for Early Breast Cancer Detection. In: Sabir, E., Medromi, H., Sadik, M. (eds) Advances in Ubiquitous Networking. UNet 2015. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 366. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-990-5_17

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