On Radiation Modes of Anisotropic Plain Weave Textile Antenna

Author

Li, Houmin ; Baginski, Michael ; Branscomb, David ; Riggs, Lloyd ; Thomas, Gwynedd

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. & Electron., Beijing Inst. of Technol., Beijing, China

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper we present a concept involving utilizing both conductive and nonconductive elements in an anisotropic plain weave to form a microstrip antenna (MSA). This configuration results in a novel antenna structure with unique radiation modes. A reference MSA, a grating MSA, and an anisotropic plain weave antenna (APWA) were fabricated and tested. A Full wave finite element method (FEM) simulation of the antenna´s performance was performed and compared with experimental results. The results show that the anisotropic plain weave configuration eliminated the TM010 mode, while enabling higher order modes.

Keywords

anisotropic media; antenna radiation patterns; finite element analysis; microstrip antennas; MSA; TM010 mode; anisotropic plain weave antenna; anisotropic plain weave configuration; anisotropic plain weave textile antenna; antenna performance; conductive element; full wave finite element method; higher order mode; microstrip antenna structure; nonconductive element; radiation mode; unique radiation mode; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Cavity resonators; Gratings; Microstrip; Textiles; Weaving;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2011 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

ISSN

2161-9646

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6250-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/wicom.2011.6040099

Filename

6040099