TY - GEN
T1 - The radio frequency characterization of conductive textile materials
T2 - 2005 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium and USNC/URSI Meeting
AU - Shaw, R.
AU - Long, B. R.
AU - Werner, D. H.
AU - Gavrin, Arthur
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - There is much recent interest in antennas constructed from conductive fibers and textiles. Traditionally, antennas are constructed with metallic elements which are sufficiently conductive that they can be treated as PEC with little loss of accuracy. However, the new conductive textile materials have electrical properties sufficiently different from standard metallic conductors to affect the accuracy of computer modeling and analysis. Accurate antenna modeling requires knowledge of the effective conductivity of the textile antenna elements, a topic that has not been adequately addressed to date in much of the available literature. This work presents an experimental method for the determination of the radio frequency parameters for conductive textile materials and shows how such experimentally derived material parameters can be used to enhance the accuracy of computer antenna designs and models.
AB - There is much recent interest in antennas constructed from conductive fibers and textiles. Traditionally, antennas are constructed with metallic elements which are sufficiently conductive that they can be treated as PEC with little loss of accuracy. However, the new conductive textile materials have electrical properties sufficiently different from standard metallic conductors to affect the accuracy of computer modeling and analysis. Accurate antenna modeling requires knowledge of the effective conductivity of the textile antenna elements, a topic that has not been adequately addressed to date in much of the available literature. This work presents an experimental method for the determination of the radio frequency parameters for conductive textile materials and shows how such experimentally derived material parameters can be used to enhance the accuracy of computer antenna designs and models.
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U2 - 10.1109/APS.2005.1552843
DO - 10.1109/APS.2005.1552843
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33846923155
SN - 0780388836
SN - 9780780388833
T3 - IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, AP-S International Symposium (Digest)
SP - 431
EP - 434
BT - 2005 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium and USNC/URSI Meeting, Digest
Y2 - 3 July 2005 through 8 July 2005
ER -