Textile artificial magnetic conductor for GPS applications

Author

Pimenta, M. Silva ; Ferrero, F. ; Brachat, P. ; Ratajczak, P. ; Staraj, R. ; Ribero, J.M.

Author_Institution

Lab. d´´Electron. Antennes et Telecommun., Univ. de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne, France

fYear

2012

fDate

26-30 March 2012

Firstpage

2884

Lastpage

2886

Abstract

This paper presents an Artificial Magnetic Conductor (AMC) used for the GPS standard (L1/L2). This AMC will then be used to design an antenna dedicated to be integrated in the clothes. The AMC cell is a double square patch stacked in textile substrate. The bandwidths of the presented cell are 5.1% and 4% respectively at 1.165 GHz and 1.593 GHz respectively, taken from -90° to 90° of phase. There is a good agreement between simulation and measurement. A wideband planar monopole is then placed over the surface. The radiation measurement shows an increase of the total gain of 2.5 dB in the normal direction of the antenna.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; broadband antennas; conductors (electric); magnetic devices; monopole antennas; planar antennas; textiles; AMC cell; GPS applications; GPS standard; bandwidth 1.165 GHz; bandwidth 1.593 GHz; double square patch; gain 2.5 dB; radiation measurement; textile artificial magnetic conductor; textile substrate; wideband planar monopole; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Dual band; Reflection; Substrates; Textiles; Artificial Magnetic Conductor; GPS; dual band; textile antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 2012 6th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Prague

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0918-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0919-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6206447

Filename

6206447