Design and Performance Analysis of a Purely Textile Spiral Antenna for On-Body NFC Applications

Novel combinations of materials and construction techniques are key for the development of new textile antenna configurations for on-body applications. Stretchable, flexible and conformable features of textile antennas are one of the hot research topics nowadays. This work gives a step forward with new designs of purely textile spiral antennas with flexible and robust features for Near Field Communications (NFC) on-body applications. Their performance is successfully validated with a real NFC chipset, and some design and construction considerations are offered for novel textile materials.