Full Embroidery Designed Electro-Textile Wearable Tag Antenna for WBAN Application
Bahaa Abbas,
Salam K. Khamas,
Alyani Ismail,
Aduwati Sali
Affiliations
Bahaa Abbas
Wireless and Photonics Research Centre of Excellence, Department of Computer and Communication Systems, Faculty of Engineering Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia
Salam K. Khamas
The Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Alyani Ismail
Wireless and Photonics Research Centre of Excellence, Department of Computer and Communication Systems, Faculty of Engineering Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia
Aduwati Sali
Wireless and Photonics Research Centre of Excellence, Department of Computer and Communication Systems, Faculty of Engineering Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia
A flexible and totally wearable textile antenna is proposed by embroidering the conductive threads into garments. A purely polyester substrate has been utilized, which provides a tag that can be easily integrated with the clothes. The proposed tag antenna is small with dimensions of 72 × 20 × 2.75 mm3 and offers an enhanced performance in terms of gain and stability when worn on different body locations. Experimental results demonstrate an improved impedance matching owing to the elasticity of the E-shaped inductive feeder. Close agreement has been achieved between the simulated and measured results.
