Textile Bandwidth-Enhanced Coupled-Mode Substrate-Integrated Cavity Antenna with Slot

Abstract

A textile bandwidth-enhanced coupled-mode substrate-integrated cavity antenna with a slot is presented. The original coupled-mode substrate-integrated cavity antenna is of two close resonances for the odd and even coupled modes, and a rectangular slot is added on the top layer to introduce a third resonance. Parameters are optimized to merge the bands of the three resonances to realize a widened −10 dB impedance band to cover the Medical Body Area Network band, 2.45 GHz Industrial Scientific Medical band and Long-Term Evolution Band7. The proposed antenna can operate in a −10 dB impedance band of 2.32–2.69 GHz with a 14.9% fractional bandwidth according to the measurements on a fabricated prototype. Simulation and measurement results illustrate the robustness of the proposed textile antenna in the vicinity of the human body and cylindrical bending conditions. In addition, the simulated specific absorption rate of the antenna radiation in the human body is lower than the IEEE and EN limits.