Optically Transparent Antenna for Smart Glasses
The optically transparent antenna technology has been gaining attention in consumer electronic industry owing to its potential to release the antenna volume constraints in compact mobile devices. Earlier studies have been heavily focused on the transparent antenna integration to the display for smar...
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| author | Yasuo Morimoto Sam Shiu Irene Wei Huang Eric Fest Geng Ye Jiang Zhu |
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| description | The optically transparent antenna technology has been gaining attention in consumer electronic industry owing to its potential to release the antenna volume constraints in compact mobile devices. Earlier studies have been heavily focused on the transparent antenna integration to the display for smartphone applications, for example, to improve its spatial coverage of 5G mm-wave at the forehead side. To our knowledge, the application of the transparent antenna technology to smart glasses and augmented reality glasses, especially considering the constraints from the coexistence with optical features in the lens stack-up, has remained unexplored. Thus, for the first time, we suggest a feasible existence solution between antennas and the RF lossy layers in the lens stack-up, to reduce the negative impacts on antenna performances. A slot loop antenna formed by metal-mesh based transparent antenna film and metallic glass frame has been investigated. Experimental results of such an antenna on human head phantom shows a total efficiency better than −4.5 dB in 2.4 GHz band. Even though it is demonstrated through a 2.4 GHz antenna example, the same principle can be applied to any other sub-6 GHz antenna applications, i.e., LTE, WiFi, GNSS, etc. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-38a67e53df4c483c80122306e40b8e592024-01-02T00:02:29ZengIEEEIEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation2637-64312023-01-01415916710.1109/OJAP.2023.323872110024399Optically Transparent Antenna for Smart GlassesYasuo Morimoto0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7696-1591Sam Shiu1Irene Wei Huang2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9063-1898Eric Fest3Geng Ye4Jiang Zhu5https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5876-5450Reality Labs, Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, USAReality Labs, Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, USAReality Labs, Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, USAReality Labs, Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, USAReality Labs, Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, USAReality Labs, Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, USAThe optically transparent antenna technology has been gaining attention in consumer electronic industry owing to its potential to release the antenna volume constraints in compact mobile devices. Earlier studies have been heavily focused on the transparent antenna integration to the display for smartphone applications, for example, to improve its spatial coverage of 5G mm-wave at the forehead side. To our knowledge, the application of the transparent antenna technology to smart glasses and augmented reality glasses, especially considering the constraints from the coexistence with optical features in the lens stack-up, has remained unexplored. Thus, for the first time, we suggest a feasible existence solution between antennas and the RF lossy layers in the lens stack-up, to reduce the negative impacts on antenna performances. A slot loop antenna formed by metal-mesh based transparent antenna film and metallic glass frame has been investigated. Experimental results of such an antenna on human head phantom shows a total efficiency better than −4.5 dB in 2.4 GHz band. Even though it is demonstrated through a 2.4 GHz antenna example, the same principle can be applied to any other sub-6 GHz antenna applications, i.e., LTE, WiFi, GNSS, etc.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10024399/Transparent antennainvisible antennametaverseaugmented realityvirtual realitysmart glass |
| spellingShingle | Yasuo Morimoto Sam Shiu Irene Wei Huang Eric Fest Geng Ye Jiang Zhu Optically Transparent Antenna for Smart Glasses IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation Transparent antenna invisible antenna metaverse augmented reality virtual reality smart glass |
| title | Optically Transparent Antenna for Smart Glasses |
| title_full | Optically Transparent Antenna for Smart Glasses |
| title_fullStr | Optically Transparent Antenna for Smart Glasses |
| title_full_unstemmed | Optically Transparent Antenna for Smart Glasses |
| title_short | Optically Transparent Antenna for Smart Glasses |
| title_sort | optically transparent antenna for smart glasses |
| topic | Transparent antenna invisible antenna metaverse augmented reality virtual reality smart glass |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10024399/ |
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