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Type: | Conference paper |
Title: | Quantifying the impact of seam compression on embroidered textile substrate-integrated structures |
Author: | Kaufmann, T. Fumeaux, C. |
Citation: | Proceedings of the 2015 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, 2015, pp.158-161 |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
ISBN: | 9788890701856 |
Conference Name: | 2015 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2015) (13 Apr 2015 - 17 Apr 2015 : Lisbon , Portugal) |
Statement of Responsibility: | Thomas Kaufmann, Christophe Fumeaux |
Abstract: | Embroidered textile electromagnetic structures based on substrate-integrated technology use computercontrolled stitching with metalized yarns to form metallic side walls. In these structures, the tensile stress of the thread compresses the flexible substrate along the seams. As a consequence, the overall shape of a manufactured design is modified, which will both impact the frequency and efficiency of the structure. In this paper, the mechanical impact of the seam compression on manufactured antennas is first estimated for two types of lowpermittivity substrates, namely closed foam and felt material. Then, the influence of the depth and width of the compression is quantified in terms of electromagnetic performance for a textile half-mode substrate-integrated cavity antenna, a substrateintegrated waveguide and a shielded stripline. It is demonstrated that seam compression significantly improves the efficiency of this type of structures, but comes at a cost of of slightly increased overall dimensions. |
Keywords: | Wearable antennas, computerized embroidery, substrate-integrated technology |
Rights: | © 2016 IEEE |
Published version: | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7228174/ |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 3 Electrical and Electronic Engineering publications |
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