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DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF TEXTILE

MONOPOLE ANTENNA
C.KOHILA1, K.KARTHIKA2
Assistant Professor, ECE, PSNACET, Dindigul, India1
Assistant Professor, ECE, PSNACET, Dindigul, India2
Abstract: This paper presents a light-weight and simple structure of monopole antenna using conductive textile.A
monopole antennas consist of a single radiating element such as a metal rod, often mounted over a conducting
surface, a ground plane. Monopoles have an omni directional radiation pattern, so they are used for broad coverage
of an area, and have vertical polarization.The prototype is designed with 2.5 mm thickness of Jeans for BodyCentric Wireless Communications (BCWC) operating in the 2.45 GHz Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM)
band. Also tested with FR4 material as a substrate. The Dimension used is 28x64.5mm.This Dimension is identified
by trial and error method on focusing 2.45GHz.The textile material have better performance when compared to
FR4.
I. INTRODUCTION
On-body antenna is very important element to be used for
various future IEEE802.15 wireless standard applications
[1]. Textile antenna is suitable for on-body radio
communication as it is textile and comfortable to be
integrated into clothing [2]. The textile monopole antenna is
chosen because this type of antenna is polarized normally to
the body surface and therefore it preserves a strong ray
diffracted around the body [3]. This present work describes
design and analysis of a textile monopole antenna basic
characteristic. The performance of the textile monopole
antenna is compared to a conventional monopole micro strip
antenna that operates in the 2.45 GHz ISM band. The
conducting ground plane and radiating element of the textile
monopole antenna comprise of PCPTF, a light-weight and
flexible conductive fabric. As for a substrate, felt fabric is
utilized.

ground plane. The length of monopole antenna is that

resonates frequency at 2.45Hz.The ground plane is
dimensioned using its width, WG and length, LG. The
structure is fed by 50- SMA connector. The conventional
micro strip antenna is designed on a Jeans substrate with 2.5
mm thickness, h, copper thickness, t, of 0.035 mm and
substrate permittivity, "micro strip is taken as reference. The
dimension of proposed textile antenna's patch length, LM , is
calculated using a simple formula

LM =4f

PARAMETER

-- (1)

DIMENSION,MM

WM
4
II. ANTENNA DESIGN
LM
64.5
Two antenna prototypes are investigated in this work;
conventional monopole antenna using microstrip and textile
monopole antenna. The geometry of monopole antenna is
WG
55
illustrated in Fig. 1. The proposed antenna uses copper as a
conductive textile, a thick plain woven polyester textile with
LG
28
0.08mm thickness and surface resistivity less than 0.05 -/sq.
The felt fabric is used as a substrate with a relative dielectric
THICKNESS
2.5
permittivity "be determined based on thickness and r = 1:57,
thickness, of, 2.5m [4]. The conductivity of fabric material
Table1. Dimensions of textile monopole antenna
has to be determined based on thickness and the material.
The width, WM and length, LM are the dimension for
The dimension of antenna is identified by using
trial
radiating element. LM is the length of the monopole which
and
error
method
t
get
the
2.45
GHz
of
resonant
frequency.
is measured from a point perpendicular to the end of the
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Jeans is a fabric material. This fabric material is used for its

flexibility. The thickness of the jeans material used is
2.5mmand 35 micron of copper is used as a conductor.

IV.RESULT
The simulated result of textile monopole antenna
using ADS software is shown in the fig.4.The gain of the
antenna is 17.8dB.The bandwidth of Jeans antenna is
309MHZ.

Fig 1.Ground plane of textile antenna

.

Fig 4. Simulated result

Fig 2.Monopole antenna structure

III.LAYOUT OF DESIGN
The layout of the design is designed using ADS software.
This software is used to design the antenna and also to
analyse the various basic parameters of the antennas
Such as Radiation pattern, Return loss , Gain , Directivity,
Etc.,
Thus the layout resembles the above two figures.

Fig5.Measured result of Jeans

The fig.5 shows the measured result of textile
monopole antenna using Jeans as a substrate. The instrument
used to measure is Network Analyzer.

V. FR4

Fig 3.Layout of textile monopole antenna

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FR-4 (or FR4) is a grade designation assigned to

glass-reinforced epoxy laminate sheets, tubes, rods and
printed circuit boards (PCB).FR-4 is a composite material

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Fig.7 Measured result of FR4 antenna

VI.CONCLUSION
The light weighted and simple structure of a
monopole antenna was designed and tested. The antenna
thus has a resonant frequency of 2.45GHz with an omnidirectional antenna type. The textile monopole antenna was
designed using jeans.FR4 is used as a model for the design
of an antenna.

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