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Embroidered wire dipole antennas using novel copper yarns

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posted on 2015-02-27, 09:44 authored by Tessa Acti, Alford ChaurayaAlford Chauraya, Shiyu Zhang, William WhittowWilliam Whittow, Rob SeagerRob Seager, J. C. Vardaxoglou, Tilak Dias
This letter presents a method of fabricating wearable antennas by embroidering novel fine copper yarn. In this work, fine copper wires are first twisted together to create a physically strong and yet flexible thread. A digital embroidery machine was used to create dipole antennas. The dc resistance of the antenna arms along with the return loss, radiation patterns, and efficiency of the antennas have been measured. The results are compared to embroidered dipoles using commercially available conductive threads and etched copper antennas.

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The work was supported by the IeMRC [grant number: EP/I01490X/1]

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volume

14

Pages

638 - 641

Citation

ACTI, T. ... et al., 2015. Embroidered wire dipole antennas using novel copper yarns. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 14, pp.638-641.

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IEEE © the authors

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Publication date

2014-11-20

Copyright date

2014

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

ISSN

1536-1225

eISSN

1548-5757

Language

  • en

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