Loss-Characterization and Guidelines for Embroidery of Conductive Textiles
Subject
Embroidery Patterns, Guidelines, Microstrip Lines
Description
The loss-performance of conductive-textile microstrip lines (MLs) is investigated based on their embroidery patterns. We fabricated and tested MLs with different thread alignments and compared their performances with their PCB counterpart. Three textile MLs of thread alignments (90°, 45°, and 0° -fill stitches) were fabricated and measured. The MLs were embroidered onto denim fabric using a new class of conductive textile thread, referred to as Elektrisola-7, via an automated embroidery process. The measurements suggested that embroidery patterns (alignments of textile threads) can significantly affect the performance of the embroidered MLs. The textile ML fabricated with 90°-fill stitches exhibited minimum transmission loss and achieved less than 0.3dB/cm-loss up to 3.5 GHz. This is the first time different embroidery patterns have been studied and reported.
Creator
Dieff Vital, Jingni Zhong, Shubhendu Bhardwaj and John L Volakis
Source
Publisher
IEEE
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