Abstract
In this paper, the utilization of common fabrics for the manufacturing of e-textile metamaterial transmission lines is investigated. In order to filter and control the signal propagation in the ultra-high frequency (UHF) range along the e-textile, a conventional metamaterial transmission line was compared with embroidered metamaterial particles. The proposed design was based on a transmission line loaded with one or several split-ring resonators (SRR) on a felt substrate. To explore the relations between physical parameters and filter performance characteristics, theoretical models based on transmission matrices’ description of the filter constituent components were proposed. Excellent agreement between theoretical prediction, electromagnetic simulations, and measurement were found. Experimental results showed stop-band levels higher than −30 dB for compact embroidered metamaterial e-textiles. The validated results confirmed embroidery as a useful technique to obtain customized electromagnetic properties, such as filtering, on wearable applications.
Highlights
Metamaterials (MTMs) have attracted significant attention from the science community since 2000.These artificial structures are usually designed to obtain controllable and inaccessible electromagnetic (EM) or optical properties not found among natural materials
A novel wearable e-textile MTM based on embroidered transmission line loaded with a split-ring resonator is presented and its performance is analyzed in terms of frequency control of the textile MTM transmission line for signal propagation applications at ultra-high frequency (UHF) microwave frequencies
S-parameterline responses ofwith the two equivalent circuit model, and measurement of embroidered loaded equivalent circuit model, and measurement of embroidered transmission line loaded with two simulation, equivalent circuit model, and measurement of embroidered transmission line loaded with symmetric two symmetric split-ring resonator (SRR)
Summary
Metamaterials (MTMs) have attracted significant attention from the science community since 2000 These artificial structures are usually designed to obtain controllable and inaccessible electromagnetic (EM) or optical properties not found among natural materials. Since we can control and optimize the design of microstrip components by using SRRs, it is theoretically feasible to implement such structures in textile substrates in order to optimize the performance of wearable or electronic textile (e-textile) devices. A novel wearable e-textile MTM based on embroidered transmission line loaded with a split-ring resonator is presented and its performance is analyzed in terms of frequency control of the textile MTM transmission line for signal propagation applications at ultra-high frequency (UHF) microwave frequencies. The controllable electromagnetic properties of proposed structure and the possibility of device flexibility and miniaturizability allows for design of the prototype with improved performance and novel techniques, in comparison with conventional devices.
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