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International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research

Table 2 Overview of the most important material parameters of different hybrid conductive yarns

From: Wearable textile antennas: investigation on material variants, fabrication methods, design and application

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Material composition

No. of synthetic threads

No. of metal wires

Optical

diameter \(\left[ \text {mm}\right]\)

Fineness

\(\left[ \text {tex}\right]\)

Linear resistance \(\left[ \Omega \text {/m}\right]\)

(nominal value  @ \({20}^{\circ }\hbox {C}\))

Tenacity \(\left[ \text {cN/tex}\right]\)

(textile strength)

1

PES multifil/Cu Ag

4

4

0.23

51

6.5

31.6

2

PES multifil/Cu Ag (insulated)

4

4

0.23

51

6.5

32.0

3

PES multifil/Cu Ag

2

8

0.16

65

3.0

14.0

4

PES multifil/Cu Ag (insulated)

2

8

0.18

68

3.0

13.5

5

Elastil multifil/Cu Ag

2

8

0.21

70

3.20

7.9

6

Elastil multifil/Cu Ag (insulated)

2

8

0.21

70

3.20

7.9

7

Silver coated Polyamide/Polyester

Ticket no. 30

1

2

0.40

96

\(<{85}\)

30.2

8

Silver coated Polyamide/Polyester

Ticket no. 50

1

2

0.36

62

\(<{150}\)

31.1

9

Silver coated Polyamide/Polyester

Ticket no. 120

2

1

0.23

28

\(<{530}\)

45.0

  1. Optical diameter, linear resistance values represent the average value, i.e. currently measured value can be in the range ± 5 \(\%\)