A near-field-sensing transceiver for intrabody communication based on the electrooptic effect

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1533-1538

  Shinagawa, Mitsuru ^a   Fukumoto, Masaaki ^b   Ochiai, Katsuyuki ^a   Kyuragi, Hakaru ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NTT DoCoMo R and D Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electrooptic effect; IEEE 8023; Intrabody communication; Laser diode; Personal area network; Ubiquitous computing; Wearable computing

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

INTRABODY COMMUNICATION; PERSONAL AREA NETWORK; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 10244242532     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2004.834064     Document Type: Article

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