Design and development of jeans textile antenna for wireless broadband applications

Abstract

This paper proposes a design of a compact jeans textile wearable antenna with miniaturized structure. This textile antenna is designed for wireless broadband applications. This antenna is resonating at 3.4 GHz. This antenna is designed using FR-4, Jeans and Denim as a substrate. The shaft shape is mounted on three different substrates (FR4, denim, and jeans), and the antenna is designed, simulated, and the parameters are analyzed. In the proposed design, textile material (Jeans, Denim) is used as a substrate and copper is used to make ground & patch. The textile material is used because it is wearable, washable, very economical, and flexible. The simulated antenna parameters like bandwidth, return loss, radiation pattern, gain and efficiency are presented. The overall size of the antenna is 30 × 30 mm2. Due to its small size, the proposed antenna may have practical applications in the smart wearable textile fields.