Methods for the Capacity Increasing of Textile Capacitors

Abstract

In smart textiles, there is an effort to create electronic elements directly as part of the carrier fabric, where conductive threads are used for their construction. Planar capacitors are electronic components that can be implemented using textile technologies. Their disadvantages are relatively large dimensions and small capacity. Therefore, the aim was to find ways to increase the capacity of textile capacitors while maintaining their flexibility and compatibility with textile technologies. Various methods of the capacity increase of textile capacitors with an interdigital electrode structure based on increasing the relative permittivity of the textile support substrate were tested. The achieved results can be used for further research in smart textiles.