Design and Performance of Textile Antenna for Wearable Applications

In this paper, a novel co-planar waveguide fed textile antenna is to be designed for wearable applications. The designed antenna has the design parameters of the size is 90 mm × 70 mm × 1.57 mm3 and the substrate is Jeans cloth whose dielectric constant is 1.6. The proposed antenna resonates at 2.45 GHz with a return loss of − 19 dB. The proposed antenna has a gain of 2 dBi and VSWR is around 1.1 at the resonating frequency. This logo shaped antenna can be radically used in military jackets, because of its compatibility, flexibility in structure design and shape, excellent performance at different angles, human safety, miniaturization, power consumption etc. © 2018, The Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers.