Textile diamond dipole and Artificial Magnetic
Conductor (AMC) have been proposed and tested under
wearable and body centric measurements. The proposed
antenna and AMC sheet are entirely made of textiles for
both the substrate and conducting parts, thus making it
suitable for wearable communications. Directive radiation
patterns with high gain are obtained with the proposed
AMC sheet, hence minimizing the radiation towards the
human body. In this study, wearable and body centric
measurements are investigated which include bending,
wetness and Specific Absorption Rate (SAR). Bending is
found not to give significant effect to the antenna and AMC
performance, as opposed to wetness that yields severe
performance distortion. However, the original performance is retrieved once the antenna and AMC dried. Moreover, notable SAR reduction is achieved with the introduction of the AMC sheet, which is appropriate to reduce the
radiation that penetrates into human flesh
