A Modified Dual-Band Wearable Antenna Using AMC for WLAN Applications

Abstract

This paper presents a novel dual-band wearable antenna using textile materials. The proposed antenna is designed for WLAN applications operation on 2.45 and 5.8 GHz. Due to the use of this structure near the human body, we applied different techniques of miniaturization. The proposed design must respect mains antenna parameters with the presence of the human body. To achieve the fixed goal, we used in this paper an Artificial Magnetic Conductor (AMC) structure. The configuration of the AMC-integrated antenna is low profile with a thickness of 6.19 mm and compact with the area of 48×72 mm2. The proposed antenna presents very interesting results which can be shown in simulation results.