Low-Profile Dual-Band Textile Antenna With Artificial Magnetic Conductor Plane

Author

Sen Yan ; Soh, Ping Jack ; Vandenbosch, Guy A. E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Volume

62

Issue

12

fYear

2014

fDate

Dec. 2014

Firstpage

6487

Lastpage

6490

Abstract

A dual-band textile antenna loaded with an artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) plane is proposed for WLAN applications. Its dual-band operation is enabled by a rectangular patch in the 2.4 GHz band and a patch-etched slot dipole in the 5 GHz band. Since the AMC approaches a perfect magnetic conductor (PMC) in the 5 GHz band, the slot dipole can be located close to the ground. The proposed antenna is fully fabricated using textiles except for a feeding connector used for testing purposes and a via. Simulations and experiments agree well and validate that this low profile antenna operates with a good reflection coefficient and a high front-to-back ratio (FBR) within the desired bands.

Keywords

UHF antennas; dipole antennas; microwave antennas; wireless LAN; frequency 2.4 GHz; frequency 5 GHz; Antenna measurements; Conductors; Dipole antennas; Dual band; Textiles; Wireless LAN; Artificial magnetic conductor (AMC); dual-band antenna; metamaterial; textile antenna;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAP.2014.2359194

Filename

6905728