Compact textile patch antenna for wearable fabric applications

Author

Ha, S. ; Lee, Seulki ; Yoo, Hoi-Jun ; Jung, C.

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of NID Fusion Technol., Seoul Nat. Univ. of Technol., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2010

fDate

7-10 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

2256

Lastpage

2259

Abstract

A compact textile patch antenna for wearable fabric applications is presented. The proposed antenna is suitable for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) operating at 5.5 GHz. The textile materials and the planar antenna shape provide a smooth integration into clothing while preserving the typical properties (Thickness: 1.5 mm, εr = 1.71) of textiles. Our investigations not only characterize the performance of the antennas in planar shape, but also under defined different bending conditions (radius of 30, 60, 90mm and plane). The proposed antenna achieved a maximum gain of 3.5 dBi.

Keywords

clothing; fabrics; microstrip antennas; microwave antennas; planar antennas; wearable antennas; wireless LAN; clothing; compact textile patch antenna; distance 1.5 mm; frequency 5.5 GHz; planar antenna shape; radius 30 mm; radius 60 mm; radius 90 mm; textile material; wearable fabric application; wireless local area network; Artificial neural networks; Bandwidth; Biomedical monitoring; Gain; Materials; Monitoring; WiMAX;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC), 2010 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Yokohama

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7590-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-902339-22-2

Type

conf

Filename

5728309