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The wireless communication system very essential technology and have significant use after corona virus effect the world very badly. The Wi-Fi technology exhibits good wireless communication to provide internet facility but suffers with low antenna gain. This novel array proposed method with different dielectric material properties is used to enhancement the gain of the Wi-Fi antenna. The operating frequency of the proposed antenna is at 2. 5GHZ. This proposed method consist of Teflon dielectric material with dielectric constant of 2.02 has the gain of 8.4dbi, return loss of -30db and VSWR is 1.85, with loss tangent 0.0002. This proposed method compares with different dielectric material like kapton and fr-4 substrate but Teflon exhibit the good results. This proposed method work good for PCB antennas and flexible and wearable antennas with kapton substrate. © 2022 IEEE.
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Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the use of filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) is increasingly widespread. Since the masks' wetness can reduce its filtering capabilities, the World Health Organization advises to replace the FFRs if they become too damp, but currently, there is no practical way to monitor the masks' wetness. A low-cost moisture sensor placed inside the FFRs could discriminate a slightly damp mask from a wet one, which must be replaced. In this letter, a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag exploiting an auto-tuning microchip for humidity sensing is designed and tested during an ordinary working day and a physical exercise. The tag returns about 1 unit of the digital metric every 3 mg of water generated by breathing and sweating, and it can identify excessively wet masks from commonly used ones.
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In this paper, a 5G on-body patch has been designed for detecting COVID-19 affected lung. A new material Single Wall Carbon Nanotube (SWCNT) is used to design the patch of the antenna. Copper is used to designing the ground and FR-4 (lossy) is used in the substrate. The antenna has a total thickness of 5.5 mm where the patch thickness is 0.5 mm, the substrate thickness is 4.5 mm, and the ground thickness is 0.5 mm. The total volume (length x width x thickness) of this antenna is 80 mm x 80 mm x 5.5 mm (35200 mm3). For detecting COVID-19, designed two human lung phantom body models such as a COVID-19 affected lung model and a non-affected normal lung model. The patch antenna and all the models were designed in CST Microwave Studio. All the dielectric properties and other valuable parameters of the antenna materials and lung phantom models were collected and used for designing the antenna and phantom lung models. The antenna's return loss (S1,1) is -27.498894 dB, gain is 3.007 dB, VSWR is 1.0880641, directivity is 6.007 dB, resonant frequency is 6.296 GHz, SAR 1.19 W/Kg, bandwidth is 1.8174 GHz and the efficiency is 61% in free space. In this pandemic situation, this antenna can be given a new step for detecting COVID-19 affected lung. © 2022 IEEE.
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The rise of antenna technology, smartphones, and the Internet-of-things (IoT) has enabled wearable antennas for wireless communication between implantable devices such as pacemakers, infusion pumps, etc., and external devices for health monitoring. This work describes the key challenges that need to be addressed for such wireless body area network (WBAN) technologies to be integrated into large-scale health monitoring programs. These include the miniaturization of antennas, fabrication techniques to enable mass production, and methods to protect patients from data infringement and hackers. Furthermore, the role of wearable and implantable antennas is pivotal to realize devices for continuous healthcare monitoring especially during Pandemic situations such as Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19). © 2021 IEEE.