A flexible fabric metasurface for on body communication applications

Author

Bashir, Saba ; Chauraya, A. ; Edwards, R.M. ; Vardaxoglou, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Loughborough Univ., Loughborough, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

16-17 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

725

Lastpage

728

Abstract

This paper presents a flexible Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS)/High Impedance Surface (HIS) structure for wearable communication systems. When designed using flexible electro-textiles for radiating elements and fabric dielectric substrates periodic electromagnetic structures may offer performance advantages in wearable antenna design. The traditional printed circuit etching technique has been used on electro-textiles to design HIS structure showing electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) behaviour. The existence of an EBG is experimentally verified from 10 to 12GHz by a transmission line technique. The design frequency can be used for satellite communication applications.

Keywords

fabrics; frequency selective surfaces; body communication application; electromagnetic bandgap behaviour; fabric dielectric substrates; flexible electrotextiles; flexible fabric metasurface; frequency selective surfaces; high impedance surface; periodic electromagnetic structures; printed circuit etching; radiating elements; wearable antenna design; wearable communication systems; Dielectric substrates; Distributed parameter circuits; Electromagnetic radiation; Etching; Fabrics; Flexible printed circuits; Frequency selective surfaces; Metamaterials; Periodic structures; Surface impedance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas & Propagation Conference, 2009. LAPC 2009. Loughborough

Conference_Location

Loughborough

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2720-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LAPC.2009.5352436

Filename

5352436