Design and characterization of aperture coupled patch antenna for wearable applications

Abstract

This paper presents a wearable aperture coupled microstrip patch antenna for Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM band) applications. In the proposed work, wearable material such as jeans is used as the feed substrate and wash cotton is used as the antenna substrate. The antenna operates in the ISM frequency band of 2.40–2.48 GHz, with the impedance bandwidth of 80 MHz (|S11| < −10 dB). The parameteric study and the outcome of the proposed antenna are presented and discussed in detail.