• DocumentCode
    19755
  • Title

    Connecting wearable textile transmission lines: all-textile fabrication solutions and design techniques

  • Author

    Tsolis, A. ; Alexandridis, A.A. ; Whittow, W.G. ; Vardaxoglou, J.C.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electron., Loughborough Univ., Loughborough, UK
  • Volume
    51
  • Issue
    15
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    7 23 2015
  • Firstpage
    1136
  • Lastpage
    1138
  • Abstract
    A new method for connecting transmission lines is presented without using rigid connectors in order to implement a fully textile interconnecting system appropriate for signal transmission in wearable applications. This method is applied to textile striplines and named `complementary overlap´. The proposed method is examined from 1 to 6 GHz covering the frequency bands of the target applications: ISM (WLAN, Bluetooth, ZigBee etc.) and L-band (GPS).
  • Keywords
    UHF circuits; microwave circuits; strip lines; textiles; transmission lines; Bluetooth; CO; GPS; ISM; L-band; WLAN; ZigBee; all-textile fabrication solution; complementary overlap; frequency 1 GHz to 6 GHz; rigid connector; signal transmission; textile interconnecting system; textile stripline; wearable textile transmission line;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el.2015.1623
  • Filename
    7163386