The vision and ideas of wearable computing systems describe future electronic systems as an integral part of our everyday\r\nclothing that provides the wearer with such intelligent personal assistants. Recently, there has been growing interest in the antenna\r\ncommunity to merge between wearable systems technology, ultrawideband (UWB) technology and textile technology. This work\r\naimed to make closer steps towards real wearability by investigating the possibilities of designing wearable UWB antenna where\r\ntextile materials are used for the substrate as well as the conducting parts of the designed antenna. Two types of conducting\r\nmaterials have been used for conducting parts, while a nonconducting fabric has been used as antenna substrate material. A set\r\nof comparative results of the proposed design were presented and discussed. Moreover, effects on the return loss by means of\r\nmeasurements for each fabricated antenna prototype under bent and fully wet conditions were discussed in more details.
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