Compact fully textile UWB antenna for monitoring applications

The inspiration of wearable computing systems describes future electronic systems as an integral part of our everyday clothing. On the other hand, the attractive features of Ultra-wideband (UWB) antennas enhanced the possibilities of providing wider bandwidth and reducing the wearable devices size as well as simplicity of fabrication. According to that, this work aimed to investigate the possibility of designing a wearable UWB antenna where fully textile materials are used for the substrate and the conducting parts of the designed antenna. A set of representative results has been discussed in more details in this manuscript. These results show that the proposed designs provide 12 GHz bandwidth with such compact size and flexible materials. The current manuscript work has profound implications for future studies that may one day help to provide the wearer with reliable and comfortable monitoring standalone suite.