Design and characterization of purely textile patch antennas

IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 777-788

  Locher, Ivo ^a,b   Klemm, Maciej ^a   Kirstein, Tünde ^a   Tröster, Gerhard ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SEFAR AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conductive textiles; Fabric antennas; Fabric substrates; Wearable computing

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; ANTENNAS; CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; MICROSTRIP LINES; POLARIZATION; TEXTILES;

CONDUCTIVE TEXTILES; FABRIC ANTENNAS; FABRIC SUBSTRATES; WEARABLE COMPUTING;

WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

EID: 33751542546     PISSN: 15213323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TADVP.2006.884780     Document Type: Article

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