Dual-band textile antenna on AMC substrate for wearable applications

The use of the wireless electronics in clothing is essential in our days in order to maintain user safety, rescue work and military personal communication. It can also be dedicated to medical and sports space applications. For this reason, this study is devoted to the design of a textile antenna operating in the WLAN bands (2.4-2.484 GHz) & (5.15-5.825 GHz). This antenna, fed by a coplanar waveguide (CPW), is intended to be integrated and carried in a person´s clothing. For that purpose, we used metamaterial structures like artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) to increase the performance of the antenna in terms of radiation and reduce the coupling with the human body.