Summary
International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation
2010
Session Number:4FC2
Session:
Number:4FC2-3
Dual-Band Bench Feed Textile Antenna
H.M.R Nurul, F. Malek, P.J Soh, G.A.E Vandenbosch,
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Publication Date:2010/11/23
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Nowadays, wearable antennas are widely used in several occupation segments such as for paramedics and fire fighters [1]. Wearable antenna has to be body conformal and not hindering the movement of the user. Therefore, wearable antenna have to be textile based antenna, made from conductive textile with several requirements such as low electrical resistance, flexible and can be deformed [2]. This paper presents two prototypes of textile antenna for WLAN Wireless Local Area Network and HiperLAN (High Performance Radio LAN). Introduction of shorting pin o the second prototype helps to shift the frequency to achieve desired resonant frequency without adjusting the dimension of the antenna. Both prototypes has been fabricated, measured and analyzed. The antenna prototype can be worn, as the entire materials used in fabricating the antenna are textiles. Felt with 1.3 mm thickness used as substrate while Zelt Conductive Fabric with 0.0635 mm used as radiating element. Overall thickness of the proposed antenna is only 1.427 mm, still consider as thin layer and comfort to be worn