Design and Evaluation of a SWB Decagonal Patch Textile Antenna for WBAN Applications

The aim of this paper is to present a Super Wide Band (SWB) antenna design and its performance evaluation. This antenna is made of textile material for body area network applications. The antenna covers from 3.45 GHz to 46.15 GHz which is termed as SWB frequency and is intended for textile applications. A radiating patch is of decagonal shaped along with ground (partial) plane with a semi-circle notch. For wearable applications, the textile materials that are used and the planer shapes provide a smooth integration into clothing while preserving the properties of the textile. It is compact in size with dimensions 32 mm × 32 mm × 1.05 mm and the achieved bandwidth is 42.7 GHz.