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Novel Wearable RF Textile-Integrated Antennas Made from Multi-Material Fibers

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Abstract

In this work, we present the emissive performance of wearable radio-frequency (RF) textiles made from multi-material fibers, 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 (S11), radiation pattern, and efficiency (gain) were similar to commercial router antennas. These multi-material fibers combine insulating and conducting materials into a well-defined geometry, and represent a cost-effective and minimally-invasive approach to sensor fabrics and bio-sensing textiles connected in real time to mobile communications infrastructures, suitable for a variety of health and life science applications.

© 2015 Optical Society of America

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