Design and Implementation of a Textile-Based Embroidered Frequency Selective Surface

Year 2022, Volume: 32 Issue: 4, 297 - 303, 31.12.2022

İbrahim Üner , Sultan Can , Banu Hatice Gürcüm , Asım Egemen Yılmaz , Ertugrul Aksoy

https://doi.org/10.32710/tekstilvekonfeksiyon.956310

Abstract

This article presents the design, fabrication and analysis of a textile-based band-stop frequency selective surface (FSS), in GSM, WiFi, LTE and WiMAX bands where the electromagnetic (EM) pollution is intense. The unit cell of the proposed FSS has been designed and simulated via a full-wave EM solver; CST Microwave Studio at the frequency of interest. In contrary to traditional FSS designs, which are printed on solid materials such as PCBs, this study presents an FSS considering a woven fabric as a substrate layer having features such as flexibility and compact weight. Two fabrication techniques have been considered one is conducted with a copper tape having a thickness of 35 µm denoted as CT FSS and the second one is conductive yarn embroidering technique denoted as CY FSS for the conducting pattern. Fabricated samples are evaluated in terms of transmission characteristics and a satisfactory agreement is obtained between CT FSS and CY FSS for both simulations and fabricated prototypes.

Keywords

Conductive yarn, Electromagnetic textile, Embroidery, EMI shielding fabric, Frequency Selective Surface

Supporting Institution

Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli Üniversitesi Bilimsel Araştırma Projeleri Birimi

Project Number

01 / 2020-07

Thanks

We would also like to thank E. Uzay Karakaya for his help during the measurements

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