Textile vee antena made with PVD process

Issue title: Selected Papers from ISEF-2013

Guest editors: Paolo Di Barba and Słwomir Wiak

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Januszkiewicz, Łukasz^a | Hausman, Sławomir^{a; *} | Nowak, Iwona^b | Krucińska, Izabella^b

Affiliations: [a] Institute of Electronics, Lodz University of Technology, ul. Wolczanska, Lodz, Poland | [b] Department of Material and Commodity Sciences and Textile Metrology, Lodz University of Technology, ul. Wolczanska, Lodz, Poland | University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy | Łódź University of Technology, Łódź, Poland

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Sławomir Hausman, Institute of Electronics, Lodz University of Technology, ul. Wolczanska 211/215, 90-924 Lodz, Poland. E-mail: slawomir.hausman@p.lodz.pl

Abstract: In the paper a textile Vee antenna made through physical vapor deposition of metal on textile material is presented. It can accomplish a wider frequency bandwidth than that of the original Vee antenna made with the embroidering technique. Dependence of both impedance and radiation patterns of the antenna on various values of the technology parameters is investigated. The radiation pattern is examined both for free space and on-body locations.

Keywords: Textile antenna, wearable electronics, physical vapour deposition

DOI: 10.3233/JAE-141946

Journal: International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 361-365, 2014