Textile antennas: Effects of antenna bending on input matching and impedance bandwidth

IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 18-22

  Salonen, Pekka ^a,c   Rahmat Samii, Yahya ^b  

^a Patria Systems Oy

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Patria Oyj   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA BENDING; CONVENTIONAL PATCH; DUAL-BAND U-SLOT ANTENNAS; TEXTILE ANTENNAS;

BANDWIDTH; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ACOUSTIC); NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

SLOT ANTENNAS;

EID: 37549045696     PISSN: 08858985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAES.2007.4408597     Document Type: Article

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