Textile antenna with EBG structure for body surface wave enhancement

Author

Jinpil Tak ; Youngtaek Hong ; Jaehoon Choi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Hanyang Univ., Seoul, South Korea

Volume

51

Issue

15

fYear

2015

fDate

7 23 2015

Firstpage

1131

Lastpage

1132

Abstract

A textile antenna with an electric bandgap (EBG) structure for body surface wave enhancement is proposed. The proposed antenna is composed of a centre-fed circular patch to generate the TM₀₁ mode and an EBG structure near the patch to guide the TM wave along the horizontal surface (θ = 90°). Considering the wearability, the antenna has been fabricated using only textile materials such as conductive textiles, conductive thread, and a leather substrate, and has an enhanced radiated field along the surface direction in the 5.8 GHz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band for on-body communication. The proposed antenna has a diameter of 1.98λ₀ and a thickness of 0.058λ₀ at 5.8 GHz.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; microstrip antennas; photonic band gap; wearable antennas; EBG structure; ISM band; TM₀₁ mode; body surface wave enhancement; centre-fed circular patch; electric bandgap structure; frequency 5.8 GHz; industrial scientific and medical band; on-body communication; textile antenna;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el.2015.1022

Filename

7163424