Various Textiles-Based Comparative Analysis of a Millimeter Wave Miniaturized Novel Antenna Design for Body-Centric Communications

Table 10

Different textiles performance summary at 2 mm away from phantom.

Substrate	Center frequency (GHz)	Bandwidth (GHz)	Gain (dBi)	Radiation efficiency (%)
100% polyester	59.718	10.01	5.209	63.29
Jeans	62.19	23.51	4.376	43.53
Denim	60	9.962	5.239	62.93
Silk	62.135	22.641	4.359	50.30
Tween	62.972	10.484	5.280	56.08
Panama	52.05	—	4.766	50.12
Felt	68.684	10.681	5.674	49.82
Moleskin	66.993	13.98	4.442	45.75
Cotton	63.878	9.84	5.958	58.03
Quartzel fabric	59.04	10.158	5.20	64.02
Cordura/Lycra	53.13	8.604	6.658	53.86