Dielectric loaded impedance matching for wideband implanted antennas

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2480-2487

  Dissanayake, Tharaka ^a   Esselle, Karu P ^b   Yuce, Mehmet R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomedical electronic; Biomedical engineering; Implanted device; Ultra wideband (UWB) antenna

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA DESIGN; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; BIOMEDICAL DEVICES; BIOMEDICAL ELECTRONIC; BROAD BAND MATCHING; DIELECTRIC LOADINGS; DISSIPATIVE MEDIUM; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; FREE SPACE; IMPEDANCE MATCHINGS; IMPLANTED DEVICE; LOSSY MEDIUM; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPERATING BANDWIDTH; PROOF OF CONCEPT; TISSUE CHANGES; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB) ANTENNA; UWB ANTENNA; WIDE-BAND;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); SLOT ANTENNAS; TISSUE; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 70350188317     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2009.2029664     Document Type: Article

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