• Smith Patil
• Nitin Ingale
• Pritish Koli
• Omkar Pol
• Kaustubh Tawde

This paper presents a wearable textile microstrip patch antenna operating for wireless body area network (WBAN) at the center frequency, fc of 2.40 GHz. Textile materials are suitable for design due to their flexibility and low relative permittivity. In this project, jeans fabric with the relative permittivity, Ɛr = 1.70 and thickness of 1.00 mm is chosen as a substrate attached to Conductive Copper Foil Tape as a conductive material with the thickness of 0.06 mm and conductivity of 6.67 × 105 S/m, respectively. In the first stage, a microstrip patch antenna layout with an line feeding technique is designed and simulated by using High Frequency Simulation Software (HFSS). In the second stage, a wearable textile microstrip patch antenna is fabricated and optimized. Simulation and fabrication measurement results show that the designed antenna characteristics are suitable for an industrial, scientific, and medical radio (ISM) band, which is at the fc = 2.40 GHz. Moreover, relative permittivity, Ɛr and thickness, h of the developed textile-based substrate affect significantly a wearable microstrip patch antenna radiation performance.

Wearable antenna; jeans fabric; wearable antenna; microstrip patch antenna; wireless body area network; Conductive copper foil tape

"Design of wearable antenna for Body Area Network using jeans substrate.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.405-410, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904C66.pdf

"Design of wearable antenna for Body Area Network using jeans substrate.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp405-410, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904C66.pdf