Mendes, CarlosPeixeiro, Custódio2018-01-192018-01-192016-06MENDES, Carlos; PEIXEIRO, Custódio – On-body off-body dual mode microstrip antenna for Body Area Network applications. In 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) 2016. Davos, Switzerland: IEEE, 2016. ISBN 978-8-8907-0186-3. Pp. 1-3978-8-8907-0186-3http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/7949This paper describes the design, fabrication and test of a novel dual mode, on-body and off-body, planar microstrip antenna for Body Area Networks applications. The on-body antenna is obtained with a microstrip ring operating at a higher order mode while the off-body antenna is obtained with a meandered microstrip antenna. The antennas are fed separately but share a common ground plane and are disposed so that the occupied area is minimized.engDual mode antennaMicrostrip ringMeander microstripL-probe fedBANconference object10.1109/EuCAP.2016.7481313