A textile antenna for WLAN applications

Author

Sankaralingam, S. ; Gupta, Bhaskar

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Tele-Commun. Eng., Jadavpur Univ., Kolkata, India

fYear

2009

fDate

22-24 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

391

Lastpage

394

Abstract

A natural progression from the Personal Area Network (PAN) concept is the Body Area Network (BAN). A wearable antenna is an essential part of any Wireless BAN. A microstrip patch radiator is chosen as an example of low-profile wearable antenna, as it can be made conformal for integration into clothing. In this paper, a textile microstrip circular disk antenna for such body centered Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) has been developed and tested. The conductive combined cotton (65:35) fabric has been chosen as its substrate material. Thus the suitability of fabric substrate materials for the development of microstrip patch antennas is well demonstrated.

Keywords

body area networks; microstrip antennas; personal area networks; wearable antennas; wireless LAN; WLAN application; body area network; fabric substrate material; microstrip patch antenna; microstrip patch radiator; personal area network; textile antenna; textile microstrip circular disk antenna; wearable antenna; wireless BAN; wireless local area network; Body area networks; Body sensor networks; Clothing; Conducting materials; Fabrics; Microstrip antennas; Personal area networks; Testing; Textiles; Wireless LAN; ISM band; microstrip circular disk radiator; textile antenna; wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Trends in Electronic and Photonic Devices & Systems, 2009. ELECTRO '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Varanasi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4846-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ELECTRO.2009.5441084

Filename

5441084