Robust Fabric Substrates for Photonic Textile Applications

Abstract

Textiles are a ubiquitous part of human life. By combining them with electronics to create electronic textile systems, new application fields emerge. In this paper, technology and applications of light-emitting textile systems are presented: a fabric substrate is described for electronic textile with robust interwoven connections between the conductive yarns in it. The fabric robustness, as a function of the electrical reliability of its conductive yarn connections, is shown to hold over large deformations. This fabric is then used to create a light-emitting diode (LED) based photonic textile display. Finally, we will show an example of an application that could make use of such a photonic textile system.

Citation

Pieterson, L.v., Bouten, P., Kriege, K. and Bhattacharya, R. (2010), "Robust Fabric Substrates for Photonic Textile Applications", Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, Vol. 14 No. 4, pp. 54-62. https://doi.org/10.1108/RJTA-14-04-2010-B006