Textile antennas: Effect of antenna bending on radiation pattern and efficiency

Author

Salonen, Pekka ; Keskilammi, Mikko ; Rahmat-Samii, Yahya

Author_Institution

Patria Aviation Oy, Tampere

fYear

2008

fDate

5-11 July 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper the radiation characteristics of three different textile antennas, namely, a conventional patch antenna, a dual-band antenna, and an EBG antenna is focused. The results show that antenna bending has remarkable effect on radiation characteristics, i.e., radiation pattern shape, gain, and radiation efficiency. It is intuitively clear that antenna bending broaden the radiation pattern in the bending plane, which results a drop of gain. In addition, it was also noticed that radiation efficiency slightly reduces due to the antenna bending. These results again show that EBG antenna performs better compared to the conventional antenna.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; microstrip antennas; multifrequency antennas; photonic band gap; EBG antenna; antenna bending effect; dual-band antenna; patch antenna; radiation pattern; textile antenna; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Azimuth; Dielectrics; Metamaterials; Patch antennas; Periodic structures; Resonant frequency; Textiles; Unmanned aerial vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2008. AP-S 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2041-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2042-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2008.4619343

Filename

4619343