Gridded patch antennas for on-body communications

IET Seminar Digest

Volumn 2009, Issue 12722, 2009, Pages

  Arriola, Aitor ^a   Val, Iñaki ^a   Brebels, Steven ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATCHING CIRCUIT; ON-BODY; PATCH ANTENNA; RADIATION PATTERNS;

COMMUNICATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

ANTENNAS;

EID: 76749151877     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/ic.2009.0095     Document Type: Conference Paper

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