Small planar UWB antennas in proximity of human head

ICU 2005: 2005 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband, Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 286-289

  Chen, Zhi Ning ^a,b   Cai, Ailian ^c   See, Terence S P ^b   Chia, M Y W ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Human body proximity effect; Planar antenna; Pulse radiation; Ultra wideband (UWB); UWB antenna; Wearable wireless devices

Indexed keywords

HUMAN BODY PROXIMITY EFFECT; HUMAN HEAD; PULSE RADIATION; ULTRA WIDEBAND (UWB) ANTENNA; WEARABLE WIRELESS DEVICES;

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PERMITTIVITY;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 33645920594     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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