Some Studies on Microstrip Patch Antennas for Wearable Applications

This paper presents a comparative study of three inset-fed patch antennas of different shapes like rectangular, circular and triangular for body wearable applications. Antenna parameters such as gain, bandwidth and return loss are simulated for best performance and the optimized antenna so obtained is mounted on a triple layered phantom. Simulation studies are being carried out to study and analyse the effects of such antenna-phantom composite structure as wearable antenna. The antennas are designed on FR4-epoxy substrate at the resonating frequency of 2.4 GHz (ISM band).