Textile Antennas: Effects of Antenna Bending on Input Matching and Impedance Bandwidth

This describes how the performance of wearable textile antennas is affected by the antenna bending. Here, we will focus on the resonance frequency fluctuation and input-match bandwidth variation due to the antenna bending. The results are given for three different antennas, namely, a conventional patch, EBG, and dual-band U-slot antennas.