Trade-offs for wireless transcutaneous RF communication in biotelemetric applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4937, Issue , 2002, Pages 307-318

  Pitz, Inke ^a,b   Hall, Leonard ^a   Hansen, Hedley ^c   Varadan, Vijay ^d   Bertram, Chris ^f   Maddocks, Simon ^a   Enderling, Stefan ^a,e   Saint, David ^a   Al Sarawi, Said ^a   Abbott, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b WESTPHALIAN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f University of Edinburgh ^*

Author keywords

Microantennas; Microvalve; RF communication; SAW

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; FLUIDICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MICROWAVES;

MICROANTENNAS;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0038641791     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.476427     Document Type: Conference Paper

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