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This chapter gives an overview of existing textile antennas and their applications. Issues are the trade-off between flexibility and conductivity of the textile, the influence of the body when the antenna is worn, and the bending and wrinkling of the antennas due to their textile nature.

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Much of the antenna theory was adopted from the book Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design by Constantine A. Balanis [3].

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Mehmann, A. (2017). Textile Antennas. In: Schneegass, S., Amft, O. (eds) Smart Textiles. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50124-6_7

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