Impedance matching and implementation of planar space-filling dipoles as intraocular implanted antennas in a retinal prosthesis

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 8 I, 2005, Pages 2365-2373

  Gosalia, Keyoor ^a   Humayun, Mark S ^b   Lazzi, Gianluca ^c  

^a GENERAL DYNAMICS ADVANCED INFORMATION SYSTEMS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Implanted antennas; Miniature antennas; Planar meander dipole antennas; Retinal prosthesis

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; ANTENNA RADIATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; PROSTHETICS;

INTRAOCULAR IMPLANTED ANTENNAS; MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNA; MINIATURE ANTENNAS; PLANAR MEANDER DIPOLE ANTENNAS; PLANAR SPACE-FILLING DIPOLES; RETINAL PROSTHESIS;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 27644526590     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.852514     Document Type: Article

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