Design and Implementation of Printed Multi-Element Antennas on Wireless Sensor Nodes

3rd International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing, ISWPC 2008, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 224-228

  Kakoyiannis, Constantine G ^a   Troubouki, Sophia V ^a   Constantinou, Philip ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Interelement distance; Multi element antennas; Mutual coupling; Printed radiators; Sensor networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DEGRADATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; PRINTED CIRCUITS; SENSOR NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EFFICIENCY; INTERELEMENT DISTANCE; MULTI-ELEMENT ANTENNAS; MUTUAL COUPLING; PRINTED RADIATORS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 51649088741     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISWPC.2008.4556202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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