Wearable Antennas: Nontextile Versus Fully Textile Solutions

This article provides a few practical guidelines for designing wearable antennas. A crucial requirement for this kind of antenna is to be noninvasive and "invisible" to the final user. To this end, an application-centered approach is required for both the design and the fabrication process, which leads to high cost, thereby limiting the large-scale production of wearable antennas. Accordingly, this article pays particular attention to low-cost...