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Body Armour with Integral High Impedance Surface

Sanz-Izquierdo, Benito, Parker, Edward A., Batchelor, John C., Miller, J.A. (2011) Body Armour with Integral High Impedance Surface. In: Proc. 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP). . pp. 1061-1064. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:28072)

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Abstract

This paper describes the performance of high impedance surfaces (HIS) integrated into body armour equipment. A protective insert made of Aramid material and a metallic woven layer is used as the dielectric material with a metallic ground plane of the HIS. The frequency selective layer added to create the high impedance surface consists of a 15x15 array of interwoven spiral elements capable of reducing size of the cell by over 98% compare to the typical square patch element. The HIS has been designed to operate at around the 400MHz band TETRA employed by the police and emergency services in Europe. The HIS is able to improve the matching of the antenna by over 7dB compared to the antenna mounted directly on the armour vest. The paper includes simulations and experiments.

Item Type: Conference or workshop item (Paper)
Subjects: T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering > TK7800 Electronics > TK7871.6 Antennas and waveguides
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Engineering and Digital Arts
Depositing User: Ted Parker
Date Deposited: 23 Aug 2011 12:04 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:06 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/28072 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

Sanz-Izquierdo, Benito.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7313-2520
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Parker, Edward A..

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Batchelor, John C..

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5139-5765
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