A miniature implanted inverted-F antenna for GPS application

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1854-1858

  Azad, Mohammed Z ^a,b   Ali, Mohammod ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^c University of South Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

Global positioning system (GPS); Hilbert; Implanted; Inverted F antenna (IFA)

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; ANTENNA DESIGN; ANTENNA PERFORMANCE; FIELD MEASUREMENT; GPS APPLICATIONS; GPS SATELLITES; HILBERT; HUMAN MUSCLES; IMPLANTED; INVERTED-F ANTENNA; INVERTED-F ANTENNA (IFA); MUSCLE TISSUES; PARAMETRIC STUDY; SUPERSTRATE;

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; MUSCLE;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 67649409006     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2016805     Document Type: Article

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