A novel textile antenna using composite multifilament conductive threads for smart clothing applications

Huang, Jian-Syuan; Jiang, Tao; Wang, Zhixiang; Wu, Sheng-Wei; Chen, Yen‐Sheng

doi:10.1002/mop.29771

Cited by 9 publications

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“…In addition to preserving the original role of heat protection and beautification, these textiles are often crucial to the advancement of knowledge science, materials science and other associated fusion technologies. Work into wearable device technologies has gained increasing attention [30][31][32][33][34][35][36].…”

Section: Textile Wearable Antennasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent Advances in Wearable Antenna Technologies: A Review

Mahmood¹,

Aris²,

Saeidi³

et al. 2020

PIER B

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Wearable antennas have received a great deal of popularity in recent years owing to their enticing characteristics and opportunities to realize lightweight, compact, low-cost, and versatile wireless communications and environments. These antennas must be conformal, and they must be built using lightweight materials and constructed in a low-profile configuration when mounted on various areas of the human body. These antennas ought to be able to function close to the human body with limited deterioration. These criteria render the layout of wearable antennas demanding, particularly when considering factors such as investigating the usability of textile substrates, high conductive materials during fabrication processes, and the effect of body binding scenarios on the performance of the design. Although there are minor differences in magnitude based on the implementations, several of these problems occur in the body-worn deployment sense. This study addresses the numerous problems and obstacles in the production of wearable antennas, their variety of materials, and the techniques of manufacturing alongside with bending scheme. This is accompanied by a summary of creative features and their respective approaches to address these problems recently raised by work in this area by the science community.

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Section: Textile Wearable Antennasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent Advances in Wearable Antenna Technologies: A Review

Mahmood¹,

Aris²,

Saeidi³

et al. 2020

PIER B

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“…This field is so attractive to researchers and market players not only because of the unique opportunities to use a multitude of materials such as paper, textile, or plastics, but also because it allows for the creation of devices sporting excellent comfort, compatibility, fit, and deformation [1,2]. Even though this research area can still be considered in its infancy, work has been presented where sensing elements, new production ideas, and design, have been seamlessly brought together to build wearables that do not alienate their user and blend easily into their daily clothing [3][4][5][6].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Electrical Characterization of Conductive Threads for Textile Electronics

2021

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In recent years, advancements in technology are constantly driving the miniaturization of electronic devices, not only in the renowned domain of Internet-of-Things but also in other fields such as that of flexible and textile electronics. As the latter forms a great ecosystem for new devices, that could be functional such as heating garments or sensory, many suppliers have already started producing and bringing to market conductive threads that can be used by researchers and the mass public for their work. However, to date, no extensive characterization has been carried out with respect to the electrical performance of such threads and that is what this article is aiming to amend. Four commercially available threads by two different suppliers were put under test, to establish their limitations in terms of maximum power handling, both continuous and instantaneous. They were subsequently examined at a microscopic scale as well, to verify any potential caveats in their design, and any hidden limitations. A preliminary profile for each of the four threads was successfully established.

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“…Wearable antennas have fully draw interests since it is the key components in body area networks (BANs). [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] The introduction of textile conductive materials makes it possible to integrate antennas onto a garment and improve the comfort and availability of wearable antennas, 1,[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] but at the same time, the environment of human bodies is complex and variable. The bending and crumpling conditions are inevitable in practical use.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The rapidly growing requirement in body‐centric communication systems is provoking the development of compact integrated devices, such as sport, emergency rescue, medical monitoring and so on. Wearable antennas have fully draw interests since it is the key components in body area networks (BANs) 1–15 . The introduction of textile conductive materials makes it possible to integrate antennas onto a garment and improve the comfort and availability of wearable antennas, 1,4–12 but at the same time, the environment of human bodies is complex and variable.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A compact flexible filtering antenna for body area network

Cui

Zhang

Yan

2021

Int J RF Mic Comp-Aid Eng

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A compact flexible wearable filtering antenna for body area network application scenarios is presented in this letter. The module is composed of a simple rectangular patch antenna tightly integrated with a bandpass filter based on multilayered hairpin resonators. The antenna is designed and fabricated by flexible textiles, which plays the last order of the filter. The introduction of the filter structure on a small solid substrate is used to enhance the frequency selectivity and the impedance matching, which will not affect the flexibility of the whole module. A good agreement is obtained between the simulation and the measurement result. It shows that the filtering antenna achieve an operating band from 5.08 to 5.96 GHz with realized gain higher than 5 dBi, and the bandwidth is stable when the antenna is placed on human body with bending scenario.

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A novel textile antenna using composite multifilament conductive threads for smart clothing applications

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Recent Advances in Wearable Antenna Technologies: A Review

Recent Advances in Wearable Antenna Technologies: A Review

Electrical Characterization of Conductive Threads for Textile Electronics

A compact flexible filtering antenna for body area network

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