A novel UWB wearable icon-type textile antenna for WBAN applications

摘要

A novel Ultra Wideband (UWB) wearable textile icon-type antenna is presented for WBAN applications. It comprises of radiating patch which is hexagonal in shape and partial ground plane. The design geometry is optimized to attain wider bandwidth in the UWB frequency ranges. Square shaped notch is introduced on the ground and unique slots on radiator are also introduced. Entire slots represent the “Power” icon. The proposed antenna dimension is 40 × 34 × 2.7 mm3 which cover bandwidth of 16.86 GHz. The proposed antenna performances are analyzed by Computer Simulation Technology (CST).