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In this paper, a new approach for the design and manufacture of a compact, low-profile, broadband, omni-directional and conformal antenna is presented, including the use of a customized flexible dielectric substrate with high permittivity and low loss tangent to realize the compact sensing antenna. Poly-di-methyl-siloxane (PDMS) is doped a certain proportion of aluminum trioxide (Al2O3) and Poly-tetra-fluoro-ethylene (PTFE) to investigate the effect of dielectric constant and loss tangent. Through a large number of comparative experiments, data on different doping ratios show that the new doped materials are flexible enough to increase dielectric constant, reduce loss tangent and significantly improve the load resistance capacity. The antenna is configured with a multisection microstrip stepped impedance resonator structure (SIR) to expand the bandwidth. The measured reflection return loss (S11) showed an operating frequency band from 0.99 to 9.41 GHz, with a band ratio of 146%. The antenna covers two important frequency bands, 1.71\u20132.484 GHz (personal communication system and wireless body area network (WBAN) systems) and 5.15\u20135.825 GHz (wireless local area network-WLAN)]. It also passed the SAR test for human safety. Therefore, the proposed antenna offers a good chance for full coverage of WLAN and large-scale development of wearable products. It also has potential applications in communication systems, wireless energy acquisition systems and other wireless systems.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21186083","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,12]],"date-time":"2021-09-12T21:48:01Z","timestamp":1631483281000},"page":"6083","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"title":["Flexible Wearable Composite Antennas for Global Wireless Communication Systems"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Rui","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Instrumentation Science & Dynamic Measurement, North University of China, Ministry of Education, Taiyuan 030051, China"},{"name":"School of Instrument and Electronics, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China"}]},{"given":"Jingwen","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Instrumentation Science & Dynamic Measurement, North University of China, Ministry of Education, Taiyuan 030051, China"},{"name":"School of Instrument and Electronics, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China"}]},{"given":"Yangyang","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Instrumentation Science & Dynamic Measurement, North University of China, Ministry of Education, Taiyuan 030051, China"},{"name":"School of Instrument and Electronics, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0254-7531","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhongbao","family":"Luo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Instrumentation Science & Dynamic Measurement, North University of China, Ministry of Education, Taiyuan 030051, China"},{"name":"School of Instrument and Electronics, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China"}]},{"given":"Binzhen","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Instrumentation Science & Dynamic Measurement, North University of China, Ministry of Education, Taiyuan 030051, China"},{"name":"School of Instrument and Electronics, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China"}]},{"given":"Junping","family":"Duan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Instrumentation Science & Dynamic Measurement, North University of China, Ministry of Education, Taiyuan 030051, China"},{"name":"School of Instrument and Electronics, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"911","DOI":"10.1021\/acssensors.0c00207","article-title":"Advanced Artificial Electronic Skin Based pH Sensing System for Heatstroke Detection","volume":"5","author":"Mani","year":"2020","journal-title":"ACS Sens."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1944","DOI":"10.1039\/C8QM00356D","article-title":"Engineering two-dimensional layered nanomaterials for wearable biomedical sensors and power devices","volume":"2","author":"Cao","year":"2018","journal-title":"Mater. 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