Wide band rectangular wearable microstrip ring antenna with textile substrate and its performance after washing

Abstract

Abstract In this paper introduced a wearable wideband rectangular microstrip patch antenna, fabrication and measurement of different parameters of designed antenna. The textile cotton material was used as substrate in the designed antenna. Here the very thin layered copper material sheet was selected as a ground plates and radiating elements. The conductive copper sheet was mounted on the textile materials by synthetic adhesive. We designed a ring antenna based on ring resonator techniques and measured the dielectric constant of the textile substrate material. The variation result of the proposed antenna with variation of thickness of the textile substrate has been investigated. For performance characteristics, three textile antenna with different substrate as wool, jeans and corduroy material are used.