Title :
Comparison of fabric and embroidered dipole antennas
Author :
Kaufmann, Thomas ; Fumeaux, I. ; Fumeaux, Christophe
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Abstract :
Flexible antennas are an important component for wearable wireless devices of the future. A comparison between fabric and embroidered dipole antennas is performed to evaluate the suitability of different conductors as building blocks of textile antennas. The dipole antennas are fed by a microstrip line to coplanar strips transition, and connected through thin metallic wires. A gain of 1.7 dB is measured for the silver fabric antenna and degrades to -4.3 dB and -5.8 dB for two different embroidered antennas where the importance of the embroidery strategy is highlighted as pathway to potential better performance.
Keywords :
antenna feeds; coplanar waveguides; dipole antennas; fabrics; microstrip transitions; performance evaluation; textiles; wearable antennas; wires (electric); antenna fed; conductor; coplanar strip transition; embroidered dipole antenna; flexible antenna; gain -4.3 dB; gain -5.8 dB; gain 1.7 dB; microstrip line; performance evaluation; silver fabric dipole antenna; textile antenna; thin metallic wire; wearable wireless device; Antenna measurements; Dipole antennas; Fabrics; Silver; Yarn; Wearable antenna; embroidery; fabric textile antenna; silver fabric;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2013 7th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Gothenburg
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2187-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-88-907018-1-8
