Screen printing reliable wearable microstrip antennas on rough textile substrates
Screen printing reliable wearable microstrip antennas on rough textile substrates
Textile-based antennas are typically realized using conductive fabrics adhered to thick non-woven fabrics such as felt, which are not suited for additive manufacturing due to their roughness. This paper presents screen printing on thin and breathable polyurethane films as a method for realizing e-textile antennas without altering the feel of the fabric, demonstrated through a microstrip antenna on standard felt fabric. The fabricated proximity-coupled patch maintains at least 100 MHz (4\%) bandwidth from 2.46 to 2.56~GHz regardless of bending and human proximity, 6.6~dBi measured gain, and 69\% radiation efficiency. The robustness of the proposed antenna is demonstrated, for the first time, through the measured radiation properties, showing that the antenna maintains its peak gain and radiation patterns after more than 10,000 bending cycles.
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Wagih, Mahmoud, Komolafe, Abiodun, Torah, Russel, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve
(2021)
Screen printing reliable wearable microstrip antennas on rough textile substrates.
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Abstract
Textile-based antennas are typically realized using conductive fabrics adhered to thick non-woven fabrics such as felt, which are not suited for additive manufacturing due to their roughness. This paper presents screen printing on thin and breathable polyurethane films as a method for realizing e-textile antennas without altering the feel of the fabric, demonstrated through a microstrip antenna on standard felt fabric. The fabricated proximity-coupled patch maintains at least 100 MHz (4\%) bandwidth from 2.46 to 2.56~GHz regardless of bending and human proximity, 6.6~dBi measured gain, and 69\% radiation efficiency. The robustness of the proposed antenna is demonstrated, for the first time, through the measured radiation properties, showing that the antenna maintains its peak gain and radiation patterns after more than 10,000 bending cycles.
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Accepted/In Press date: July 2021
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Mahmoud Wagih
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Abiodun Komolafe
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Russel Torah
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Alex S. Weddell
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Steve Beeby
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