A Frequency Reconfigurable and Beam Steering Micro-strip Patch Antenna with Triangular Slot for Wearable Fabric Applications

Abstract

The design of frequency reconfigurable, beam steering micro-strip patch antenna with a triangular slot for wearable applications is proposed in this work. The wearable computing systems with wireless communication ability are gaining research interest very recently. The progress in electronic equipments and enhancement in wireless mechanisms have applying communication systems adjacent to human bodies. The proposed frequency reconfigurable and beam steered model is comprised of a micro-strip patch with a Triangular-slot designed on a fabric. The suggested design can steer the beam resonant at frequency of 2.4-GHz and 3.4-GHz at different states. The design of the proposed model is integrated with proximity-coupled feeding technique. The addition of two artificial switches between the proximity-coupled feed and the antenna patch, the antenna resulting in four beam directions respective to the modes (S0, S1, and S2 and S3).