Assessment of SAR reduction in Wearable Textile Antenna

Wearable textile antenna used in various applications need novel designs to achieve objectives of compact antenna with lowest possible Specific Absorption Rate (SAR). In this paper, reported methods used to reduce SAR using EBG structure are briefly described. ISM 5.8 GHz band antenna is designed and modeled in Ansys High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS). SAR values with this antenna are computed in human body model. Effectiveness of EBG array structure to reduce SAR to acceptable values is demonstrated by simulations.