Asia Pacific Symposium of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics (APSAEM 2010), Date: 2010/07/28 - 2010/07/30, Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Asia Pacific Symposium of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics (APSAEM 2010)
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Conductive textile, Textile antennas, Planar inverted-F Antenna (PIFA)
Abstract:
A small, light weight planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) fabricated using conductive textiles is presented in this paper. Conductive textile is made from conductive polymer or metal threads together with normal fabric thread. The antenna presented in this paper has a total dimension of 20 mm x 20 mm and has been optimized to be operational for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) with 2.45 GHz operating frequency. The antenna achieved the desired operat-ing frequency with 765 MHz bandwidth. Analysis of the different bending on the antenna has been carried out to in-vestigate the performance of the antenna when integrated on a human user.