Measurement of a slot antenna backed by a textile cavity with post-walls of conductive threads

Author

Komeya, Masashi ; Sato, Kiminori ; Shimasaki, Hitoshi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Kyoto Inst. of Technol., Kyoto, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

13-15 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A flexible cavity-backed slot antenna has been improved by using a post-wall structure. Arrays of conductive threads as vias between two conductive sheets of textiles are forming post-walls of the rectangular cavity. The reflection and radiation characteristics of the slot antenna have been measured for the flat case and the case of being bent. This type of antenna is flexible and wearable, so it is useful in applications of wearable electrical systems.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; electromagnetic wave reflection; slot antenna arrays; textiles; wearable antennas; antenna radiation characteristics; antenna reflection characteristics; conductive sheet; conductive thread array; flexible cavity-backed slot antenna; post-wall structure; rectangular textile cavity; wearable antenna; wearable electrical system; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Cavity resonators; Fabrics; Slot antennas; cavity; conductive textile; post-wall waveguie; slot antenna; wearable antenna; wearable electrical systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Photonics (ICMAP), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dhanbad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2176-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMAP.2013.6733468

Filename

6733468