Bandwidth properties of embroidered loop antenna for wearable applications

Author

Maleszka, Tomasz ; Kabacik, Pawel

Author_Institution

Inst. of Telecommuniactions, Teleinformatics & Acoust., Wroclaw Univ. of Technol., Wroclaw, Poland

fYear

2010

fDate

27-28 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

89

Lastpage

92

Abstract

In this paper, the technology and performance of textile CPS-fed loop antennas are presented. Computer-aided embroidery has been chosen as a manufacturing technique. The conductive shape of the planar textile antenna is obtained with the use of conductive polyester (PES) yarn with conductive metal filaments incorporated. Bandwidth properties of such antennas as well as design technique is described. The simulations and measurements results of planar textile loop antennas have been compared with planar CPS-fed dipole antenna, designed to operate at the same frequency of 2 GHz.

Keywords

UHF antennas; dipole antennas; loop antennas; planar antennas; textiles; yarn; PES yarn; computer-aided embroidery; conductive metal filaments; conductive polyester; conductive polyester yarn; embroidered loop antenna; frequency 2 GHz; planar textile antenna; textile CPS-fed loop dipole antennas; wearable antenna; Antenna measurements; Bandwidth; Dipole antennas; Impedance matching; Shape; Textiles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Technology Conference (EuWIT), 2010 European

Conference_Location

Paris

ISSN

2153-3644

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7233-8

Type

conf

Filename

5615229