Novel multi-material fibers for wireless communication textile devices

Miniaturized, multi-material fibers represent a novel promising approach to integration of higher-level functionalities into textile mediums. In this work, we present novel `smart textile´ fabrics featuring multi-material fiber antennas compatible with existing 2.4GHz wireless communication networks. A sub-millimeter leaky coaxial cable fiber antenna is shown to be fully compatible with a textile weaving process, and exhibits an isotropic radiation pattern in the H-plane and multiple radiation lobes in the E-plane, in accordance with theory and simulations.