A Comprehensive Study of Weaving Structure and Its Impact on Textile Antenna for WBAN Application

Weaving structure on conductive fabric or e-textile has not yet being investigate thoroughly. Previous studies on textile antenna usually use the market conductive fabric. Least study was present on the weaving structure of the conductive fabric and it is actually important especially if the conductive fabric is developed from the start. Thus, this paper studies the structure of three weaving patterns which are plain, satin and twill for the development of conductive fabric. Three prototypes were fabricated and the performance of textile antenna is observed at resonance frequency of 3 GHz. At the end of the experiment, it is prove that weaving structure does affect the antenna performance. Satin and twill shows better gain performance as compared to plain weave pattern. The gain of satin and twill weaving structure are 3.22 dB and 3.23 dB respectively, while plain weave is 2.25 dB. More theory on how weaving pattern affects the antenna will be discussed on this paper.