TY - GEN
T1 - Design and Test of Wearable Textile-based Transmission Lines
AU - Joshi, Rahil
AU - Podilchak, Symon K.
AU - Constantinides, Constantine
AU - Low, Bob
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 European Microwave Association.
PY - 2022/6/2
Y1 - 2022/6/2
N2 - A flexible textile-based coaxial transmission line for wearable applications is presented. The textile material, polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), was used to design the prototype. The performance of this RF cable was simulated and measured, and it is operational to about 6 GHz. The performance of the prototype was also measured under wet conditions. Furthermore, an electromagnetic coupling analysis, was performed, which evaluated the shielding effectiveness of the cable. When compared to a more standard coaxial cable, a mass reduction of about 30% was achieved for the developed textile-based cable. The highly flexible nature of the cable makes it suitable to use with wearable antennas and other RF components for various on body sensors and communication systems. Moreover, it can also be fully integrated and positioned discretely within different garments. Example placements include along the arm, hood, or chest. To the best knowledge of the authors, no similar textile-based transmission line has been demonstrated which offers 50-Omega connectivity.
AB - A flexible textile-based coaxial transmission line for wearable applications is presented. The textile material, polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), was used to design the prototype. The performance of this RF cable was simulated and measured, and it is operational to about 6 GHz. The performance of the prototype was also measured under wet conditions. Furthermore, an electromagnetic coupling analysis, was performed, which evaluated the shielding effectiveness of the cable. When compared to a more standard coaxial cable, a mass reduction of about 30% was achieved for the developed textile-based cable. The highly flexible nature of the cable makes it suitable to use with wearable antennas and other RF components for various on body sensors and communication systems. Moreover, it can also be fully integrated and positioned discretely within different garments. Example placements include along the arm, hood, or chest. To the best knowledge of the authors, no similar textile-based transmission line has been demonstrated which offers 50-Omega connectivity.
KW - coaxial cables
KW - Textile transmission line
KW - wearable devices
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UR - https://youtu.be/JkXA9wdw0wY
U2 - 10.23919/EuMC50147.2022.9784326
DO - 10.23919/EuMC50147.2022.9784326
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85133007534
T3 - 2021 51st European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2021
SP - 393
EP - 396
BT - 2021 51st European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
T2 - 51st European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2021
Y2 - 4 April 2022 through 6 April 2022
ER -