Design and evaluation of a compact antenna for implant-to-air UWB communication

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 153-156

  Dissanayake, Tharaka ^a   Yuce, Mehmet R ^a   Ho, Chee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomedical communication; Broadband communication; Printed antennas; Ultrawideband (UWB) antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA DESIGN; ANTENNA MATCHING; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BIOMEDICAL COMMUNICATION; BIOMEDICAL IMPLANTS; BROADBAND COMMUNICATION; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPES; COMPACT ANTENNA; CST MICROWAVE STUDIO; FEED MECHANISMS; FREE SPACE; PRINTED ANTENNA; RADIATION PERFORMANCE; RETURN LOSS BANDWIDTH; ULTRA-WIDEBAND ANTENNAS; ULTRAWIDEBAND (UWB) ANTENNAS; UWB COMMUNICATION;

COMMUNICATION; OPTIMIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

ANTENNAS;

EID: 70350148397     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2009.2013370     Document Type: Article

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