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The paper presents the design and investigation of a wearable textile antenna (receiver) and transmitter antenna operating in the wireless body area network (WBAN) of 26 GHz band for 5G mobile networks. The wearable antenna with an overall size of 30 mm x 40 mm x 1.26 mm achieves good impedance matching, high gain, and directive radiation pattern. Both antennas were designed using CST Microwave Studio to validate the simulation results. A rectangular radiating patch comprises a Shieldit electrotextile situated on one side of a non-conductive substrate panel with the ground plane. The bed sheet cotton fabric is used as the non-conductive substrate due to its widespread use in daily clothing with a dielectric constant is 3.2 and the loss tangent is 0.0027. In addition, the wearable antenna successfully achieved the high gain and efficiency of 12 dB and 90.83% respectively. Moreover, the antenna operating at 26 GHz with -40.48 dB return loss, which is less than the -10 dB in requirement. The simulated results show that this proposed wearable antenna is best suited for wireless body area network applications. Hence, the wearable antenna is simple, compact and easy to fabricate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

RFID technology is evolving as one of the most popular technologies in this era of technology, fast gaining attention due to high demand from users and rapidly garnering interest in scientific and commercial areas. The frequency used will be determined by the RFID application, and the power rate will change as the frequency increases. Without a straight line of sight, the RFID tag antenna can identify distinct objects. For wearable applications, several RFID tag antennas are too big to match the chip impedance. In order to overcome that problem, a small tag RFID tag antenna for UHF is designed which aimed to be operated from 865 to 867 MHz for assembling production. Impedance matching is used to transforms the impedance of the radiating antenna, to match the chip impedance. To design and simulate the designed antenna, CST Microwave Studio software has been used in this project to get the desired result which is the return loss and gain. The design for this antenna is very simple to ease the fabrication process. Overall, the construction comprises a spiral-shaped loop RFID tag antenna printed on Roger substrate RO4350 with a height of 0.8 mm and a dielectric constant of 3.3. The simulation result of the reflection coefficient of the antenna is 866 MHz at the operating frequency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

RFID is not a new technology. It has been applied in various industries such as for wearable applications. Common RFID tags especially for those that have been designed and are available are not independent of the incident receiver angle. Numerous wearable antennas on the market are only designed for a certain received angle. For example, a wearable RFID antenna is used in medical as a pulse reading detector. If the patient makes any movement, the patient's pulse reading is no longer accurate or there may be no pulse reading. Hence, the purpose of this project is to design and RFID antennas using Frequency Selective Surface, FSS for wearable applications that are independent towards the incident angle and small in size. In this project, several antennas design with Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) is proposed. The design for this antenna is round, square, and hexagonal. This antenna has an operating frequency from 2.4 GHz to 5.8GHz, bandwidth efficiency > 50%, dielectric constant 1.30, independent incident angle up to 60 degrees, and has a high gain of around 2 to 3dB. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]