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. 2021 May 3;3(5):2233–2246. doi: 10.1021/acsaelm.1c00179

Table 1. Performance Comparison of Our Proposed Textile Stretchable Microstrip Antennas with Other Stretchable Antennas Reported in the Literature.

stretchable unit cell conductive material fabrication method stretchability (%) sensitivity ref
hierarchical triangular lattice copper foil cutting with programmable desktop cutter machine 15 0.82 (19)
N/A AgNWs drop casting the AgNWs on PDMS 15 0.245 (22)
rectangular mesh liquid metal alloy injecting liquid metal into microchannels 20 0.552 at 15% strain (28)
serpentine rectangular meshed patch over solid ground plane conductive textile cutting with laser cutter 40 0.20 (avg) this work (patch is meshed)
serpentine rectangular meshed in both patch and ground planes conductive textile cutting with laser cutter 100 0.25 (avg) this work (both patch and ground plane are meshed)