Inkjet-Printed Microstrip Patch Antennas Realized on Textile for Wearable Applications

By W. Whittow, A. Chauraya, J. Vardaxoglou, Yi Li, Russel N. Torah, Kai Yang, S. Beeby, J. Tudor. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 2014

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This letter introduces a new technique of inkjet printing antennas on textiles. A screen-printed interface layer was used to reduce the surface roughness of the polyester/cotton material that facilitated the printing of a continuous conducting surface. Conducting ink was used to create three inkjet-printed microstrip patch antennas. An efficiency of 53% was achieved for a fully flexible antenna with two layers of ink. Measurements of the antennas bent around a polystyrene cylinder indicated that a second layer of ink improved the robustness to bending.

Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Media Technology

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1. W. Whittow
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1. G. M. N. Islam
2. Azam Ali
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Citations in the corpus

• Embroidery and related manufacturing techniques for wearable antennas: Challenges and opportunities (2014, methodology): “This process has been applied to dipoles [55] and patch antennas [56].”
• Textile sensors for wearable applications: a comprehensive review (2020, methodology): “…al. (2017) used InkTec-IJ010 on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) to produce insulator for using in aqueous low voltage/conductive biosensor systems Willium et al. (2014) also used silver ink (U5714) on CVC (65/35 polyester/cotton) to improve the robustness to bending of conductive textile Silver…”