Publications
Chosen filters:
Chosen filters:
Textile capacitor: influence of stainless steel yarn electrodes thickness on device reliability Ghent University
Wearable coupled-quarter-mode SIW antenna platform with hybrid kinetic and ambient-light energy harvesting Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre
As key enablers for smart fabric interactive textile (SFIT) systems, textile antenna systems and platforms need to be energy-efficient, low-profile and should guarantee a stable wireless body-centric communication link. Using multiple energy harvesters on and in the antenna platform is highly recommended to enable autonomous SFIT systems. Different sensors could be added to the system for monitoring the environmental and/or biophysical ...
A robust wearable textile SIW RFID antenna Ghent University
A wearable textile Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag realized on a substrate integrated waveguide cavity is presented, operating in the European UHF RFID frequency band. The antenna shows a very good isolation with respect to the human body, and a satisfactory robustness to antenna-body distance variations. The resulting tag is very compact, since its size has been reduced by exploiting the symmetry of a SIW cylindrical resonant cavity ...
Development and washing reliability testing of a stretchable circuit on knit fabric Ghent University
The smart textiles and wearable technology markets are expanding tirelessly, looking for efficient solutions to create long-lasting products. The research towards novel integration methods and increasing reliability of wearables and electronic textiles (e-textiles) is expanding. One obstacle to be tackled is the washability and the endurance to mechanical stresses in the washing machine. In this article, different layering of thermoplastic ...
Latest developments in the field of textile antennas Ghent University
Monitoring the failure mechanisms of a reinforced concrete beam strengthened by textile reinforced cement using acoustic emission and digital image correlation Vrije Universiteit Brussel
One of the most commonly used techniques to strengthen steel reinforced concrete structures is the application of externally bonded patches in the form of carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRP) or recently, textile reinforced cements (TRC). These external patches undertake the tensile stress of bending constraining concrete cracking. Development of full-field inspection methodologies for fracture monitoring are important since the reinforcing ...
Washable screen printed textile antennas Ghent University
The pH-sensitive properties of azo dyes in aqueous environment Ghent University
Azo dyes consist of a double nitrogen-nitrogen bond connected to two aromatic moieties, creating a large conjugated pi-system. A relatively simple synthesis and large variety of colours have made azo dyes the most abundant class of colourants. The dye studied in this research, ethyl orange (EO), is a prototypical example of a halochromic (pH-sensitive) azo dye. Halochromic dyes have already proven useful for application in textile sensors since ...