Title
Emissive performance of wearable RF textiles made from multi-material fibers
Abstract
In this work, we present the emissive performance of wearable radio-frequency (RF) textiles made from multi-material fibers, for both on-body and off-body scenarios, for body area network applications through ISM (2.4 GHz) bands. It is shown that the emissive performance of the RF textiles in terms of return loss (S <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">11</sub> ), radiation pattern, and efficiency (gain) were similar to commercial router antennas, while the center frequency shift and band broadening were reduced due in part to the small form factor of the fiber antennas. The RF textiles were fabricated by integrating unobtrusive polymer-glass-metal fiber composites into a textile host using conventional weaving process. This approach provided good RF emissive performance in compliance with safety regulations while preserving the mechanical and cosmetic properties of the garments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/BSN.2015.7299384
2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Wearable textile antennas,multi-material fibers
Weaving,Dipole antenna,Small form factor,Return loss,Fiber,Computer science,Radiation pattern,Radio frequency,Body area network,Optoelectronics
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2376-8886
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stepan Gorgutsa151.22
Mazen Khalil210.68
Victor Belanger-Garnier320.86
jeff viens441.75
younes messaddeq531.94
B Gosselin635360.22
Sophie LaRochelle779.52