Suppression of Higher Order modes in Wearable Microstrip Antenna using Tuning fork shaped Resonator for Integration in WBAN

Abstract

Controlling of radiation characteristics from the suppression of higher order modes by incorporation of resonators in wearable microstrip antenna has been implemented in the present work. In this paper, dual tuning fork shaped resonators are integrated with the microstrip line feed of a wearable microstrip antenna, resonant at Bluetooth band which resulted in controlling of higher order harmonics. A detailed illustration on various characteristics parameters of the resonator integrated wearable microstrip antenna has been presented for improved antenna performance in Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN).