Abstract
The aim of this article is to design a new microstrip-fed patch antenna for cell phone applications. The antenna design is composed of slots and FR-4 dielectric substrate fed by a partial ground plane and a microstrip line. The user's effects on antenna performances are also analyzed using standard SAM phantom. The specific absorption rate (SAR) values of proposed antenna are evaluated for different frequency bands considering cheek position of talk mode. The proposed antenna has an impedance bandwidth (-10 dB reflection coefficients) 100 MHz (0.87-0.97 GHz, lower band), 50 MHz (1.47-1.52 GHz, middle band), and 150 MHz (1.78-1.93 GHz, upper band), which can cover GSM 900 MHz, GPS 1,500 MHz, DCS 1,800 MHz, PCS 1,900 MHz, and GSM 1,900 MHz bands. Moreover, the proposed antenna produces lower SAR values in the human head than that of a dipole and helical antenna.