Body-worn E-textile antennas: The good, the low-mass, and the conformal

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 4 PART. 1, 2009, Pages 910-918

  Kennedy, Timothy F ^a   Fink, Patrick W ^a   Chu, Andrea W ^a   Champagne II, Nathan J ^a   Lin, Gregory Y ^a   Khayat, Michael A ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Beamforming; Conformal antennas; Diversity methods; E textile antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA SYSTEMS; CONFORMAL ANTENNAS; DIVERSITY METHODS; E-TEXTILE ANTENNAS; E-TEXTILES; LOW MASS; MASS IMPACTS; MICROSTRIP ARRAYS; MULTIPLE-ANTENNA COMMUNICATIONS; MULTIPLE-ANTENNA SYSTEMS; POLARIZATION DIVERSITIES; ROBUST PERFORMANCE; TEXTILE MATERIALS; WIDE BANDS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS; WIRELESS DATUM;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BEAMFORMING; BROADCASTING ANTENNAS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

TEXTILES;

EID: 65549127716     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2014602     Document Type: Article

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