Investigating the impact of smart antennas on SAR

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1370-1374

  Chim, Kwok Chi ^a   Chan, Kenneth C L ^a   Murch, Ross D ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Mobile telephone antenna; Planar inverted F antennas (PIFA); Smart antennas; Specific absorption rate (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RECEPTION QUALITY; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MOBILE TELEPHONE ANTENNA; PLANAR INVERTED ANTENNAS; SMART ANTENNAS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

MOBILE ANTENNAS;

EID: 2942559237     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.827513     Document Type: Article

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