{"title":"A flexible inkjet printed inverted-F antenna on textile","authors":"M. A. Karimi, A. Shamim","doi":"10.1109/MECAP.2016.7790101","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This is an era of wearable gadgets which demands flexible and wearer friendly wireless components. This paper presents a modified inverted-F antenna (IFA) which has seamlessly been integrated with the fabric through inkjet printing. Surface roughness of the textile has been reduced using a rapid UV curable flexible interface layer. Smooth interface layer helps achieving very fine features which may be required for complicated antenna and circuit traces.","PeriodicalId":366020,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Middle East Conference on Antennas and Propagation (MECAP)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2016 IEEE Middle East Conference on Antennas and Propagation (MECAP)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MECAP.2016.7790101","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This is an era of wearable gadgets which demands flexible and wearer friendly wireless components. This paper presents a modified inverted-F antenna (IFA) which has seamlessly been integrated with the fabric through inkjet printing. Surface roughness of the textile has been reduced using a rapid UV curable flexible interface layer. Smooth interface layer helps achieving very fine features which may be required for complicated antenna and circuit traces.