TY - GEN
T1 - A Reconfiguration Module with Coplanar Snap-On Connection for Wearable Textile Antennas
AU - Dang, Quoc Hung
AU - Chen, Shengjian Jammy
AU - Ranasinghe, Damith Chinthana
AU - Fumeaux, Christophe
PY - 2019/12
Y1 - 2019/12
N2 - A reconfiguration module based on a small printed circuit board (PCB) and commercial snap-on buttons for reconfigurable flexible textile antennas is proposed. The concept consists of a small PCB loaded with a reconfigurable circuitry including active and lumped components, which is combined with a pair of commercial male snap-on buttons for electrical connection to conductive textiles. The reconfiguration module can provide a secure and robust coplanar electrical connection between rigid electronics and flexible textile conductors, which is usually challenging for textile antennas. To validate this module concept, a frequency-reconfigurable planar inverted-F antenna using a varactor-based module realization is designed and simulated. The antenna is predicted to exhibit a frequency tuning range of 24.9% from 2.14 to 2.75 GHz with efficiency from 60.1% to 89.4%.
AB - A reconfiguration module based on a small printed circuit board (PCB) and commercial snap-on buttons for reconfigurable flexible textile antennas is proposed. The concept consists of a small PCB loaded with a reconfigurable circuitry including active and lumped components, which is combined with a pair of commercial male snap-on buttons for electrical connection to conductive textiles. The reconfiguration module can provide a secure and robust coplanar electrical connection between rigid electronics and flexible textile conductors, which is usually challenging for textile antennas. To validate this module concept, a frequency-reconfigurable planar inverted-F antenna using a varactor-based module realization is designed and simulated. The antenna is predicted to exhibit a frequency tuning range of 24.9% from 2.14 to 2.75 GHz with efficiency from 60.1% to 89.4%.
KW - Flexible antennas
KW - Planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA)
KW - Reconfigurable antennas
KW - Textile antennas
KW - Wearable antennas
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85082995806&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DP160103039
U2 - 10.1109/apmc46564.2019.9038270
DO - 10.1109/apmc46564.2019.9038270
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference Proceedings, APMC
SP - 613
EP - 615
BT - Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, APMC 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
T2 - 2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, APMC 2019
Y2 - 10 December 2019 through 13 December 2019
ER -