Embroidered conductive fibers on polymer composite for conformal antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4141-4147

  Wang, Zheyu ^a   Zhang, Lanlin ^a   Bayram, Yakup ^b   Volakis, John L ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b PaneraTech Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Conductive textile; conformal antenna; electronic fiber; embroidered antenna; flexible RF circuit; polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) composite

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE SUBSTRATE; CONDUCTIVE FIBERS; CONDUCTIVE TEXTILES; CONFORMAL ANTENNAS; CYLINDRICAL SURFACE; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FLEXIBLE POLYMERS; GHZ FREQUENCIES; HIGH STRENGTH; METAL POLYMERS; METALLIC COATING; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; POLYMER CERAMIC COMPOSITE; POLYMER COMPOSITE; RF CHARACTERISTICS; RF PERFORMANCE; RF-CIRCUITS; TITANATE CERAMIC;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COPPER; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; POLYMERS; SILICONES;

FIBERS;

EID: 84866107348     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2207055     Document Type: Article

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