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A circular patch frequency reconfigurable antenna for wearable applications

  • Waqas Farooq
    ,
  • Masood Ur-Rehman
    ,
  • Qammer Hussain Abbasi
    ,
  • Khalid Qaraqe
  • University of Bedfordshire
    ,
  • Texas A&M University at Qatar
Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Abstract

A novel frequency reconfigurable microstrip patch antenna has been presented for 3.6 GHz and 5 GHz. Compared to the traditional, complicated and high cost frequency reconfigurable antennas, our work is featured by a simple and concise design. The frequency reconfiguration is obtained by using layers of mercury and liquid crystal polymer (LCP) on conventional patch antenna. The proposed structure was modelled and simulated using CST Microwave Studio. The antenna was first simulated in free space to check the antenna parameters such as return loss, gain, radiation pattern and efficiency. After obtaining the results, the antenna was simulated for analysing the on-body performance by using numerical model of human body. The simulated return loss for both the configurations is less than -10 dB at the radiating frequencies. The free space simulated results show the close agreement with the on-body test results.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 103-106

Publication milestones

  • Published - 07/12/2015

Publication status

Published - 07/12/2015

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., United States

ISBN (Print)

9781467377010

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/624458
  • Scopus: 84964309694

Host publication title

2015 IEEE 11th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob)

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