Experimental Parametric Study of Dual-Layer Planar Wearable Magnetoinductive Waveguides

Magnetoinductive waveguides have been shown to have strong potential in wearable applications due to their extremely low loss and unobtrusive design, among other factors. Previously, we reported a limited experimental study of a wearable e-textile-based dual-layer planar MIW. In this work, we expand the experiment considerably by accounting for two dimensions of clothing misalignment. Results show a strong agreement between simulation and experiment in terms of performance and robustness to change. A clear passband is maintained across the misalignments, experimentally confirming the robustness to clothing transitions of the dual-layer planar design.