Abdul Wahab Memon obtained his PhD

 The title of his PhD thesis is "Breathable and Stretchable Textile Antennas".

Wearable systems rely on efficient wireless communication for consistent data transmission. A textile antenna is a suitable option to be used as a communication device. During wearable application, the challenges it experiences are associated with environmental humidity. It alters the antenna's electromagnetic performance. More functionalities from a single gadget are increasingly demanded to help reduce the number of devices within a wearable system and avoid integration complexities. Attributes such as stretchability, and flexibility are favorable for a textile antenna. This doctoral dissertation adds two aspects associated with textile antennas: first, fabricating a breathable textile patch antenna by bringing innovations in antenna design and choosing high permeable textile materials to increase antenna breathability, and second, developing a stretchable textile antenna by adopting a simple and novel technique for transforming non stretchable materials into stretchable ones.

Supervisors:

• Prof. Lieva Van Langenhove
• Dr. Benny Malengier

Members of the examination board:

• Em. Prof. Daniël De Zutter
• Prof. Cédric Cohrane (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Industries Textiles, France/France), France)
• Dr. Eva Loccufier
• Prof. Kamran Ali Memon (Kamran Ali Memon (Quaid e Awam University of Engineering, Science & Technology, Pakistan)
• Prof. Adnan Shahid
• Prof. Patrick Van Torre