Basic characteristics of a textile monopole antenna for body-centric wireless communications

Author

Rahim, Hasliza A. ; Malek, Mohd Fareq Abd ; Adam, Ismahayati ; Juni, Khairudi Mohd ; Saleh, Mohd Iskandar Mohd

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Commun. Eng., Univ. Malaysia Perlis, Kangar, Malaysia

fYear

2012

fDate

23-26 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

272

Lastpage

275

Abstract

This paper presents a light-weight, compact and simple textile monopole antenna structure for body-centric wireless communications (BCWC), applications operating in the 2.45 GHz Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) band. Three different conductive textile materials are chosen: Pure Copper Polyester Taffeta, ShieldIt Super and Nora RS. The result obtained in this investigation showed that all three textile monopoles produced higher reflection coefficient and directivity values compared to the conventional FR-4 monopole antenna. It was found that the simulated gain and radiation pattern characteristics agreed well with the conventional FR4 monopole antenna. The result has also shown that the Nora RS gave better performance in terms of return loss and gain characteristics compared to the other two electrotextiles.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; monopole antennas; radio networks; BCWC; FR-4 monopole antenna; ISM band; Nora RS; antenna radiation patterns; body-centric wireless communication; conductive textile materials; electrotextiles; frequency 2.45 GHz; pure copper polyester taffeta; shieldit super; textile monopole antenna; Antenna radiation patterns; Microstrip antennas; Textiles; Wireless communication; Monopole antenna; bodycentric wireless communications; conductive textile; textile antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Technology and Applications (ISWTA), 2012 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bandung

ISSN

2324-7843

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2209-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISWTA.2012.6373859

Filename

6373859