Co-design of antenna element and ground plane for printed monopoles embedded in wireless sensors

Proceedings - 2nd Int. Conf. Sensor Technol. Appl., SENSORCOMM 2008, Includes: MESH 2008 Conf. Mesh Networks; ENOPT 2008 Energy Optim. Wireless Sensors Networks, UNWAT 2008 Under Water Sensors Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 413-418

  Kakoyiannis, Constantine G ^a   Constantinou, Philip ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA GROUNDS; COBALT; COBALT COMPOUNDS; HYBRID SENSORS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ANTENNA CONFIGURATIONS; ANTENNA ELEMENTS; ANTENNA PARAMETERS; BANDWIDTH CONSTRAINTS; CO DESIGNS; EFFECT OF THE GROUNDS; ELECTRICAL SIZES; EUCLIDEAN; GROUND PLANES; PRINTED ANTENNAS; PRINTED MONOPOLES; RADIATION EFFICIENCIES; SCALAR QUANTITIES; SENSOR NODES; SMALL ANTENNAS; VSWR BANDWIDTHS; WIRELESS MULTI MEDIAS; WIRELESS SENSORS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 55849083105     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SENSORCOMM.2008.128     Document Type: Conference Paper

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