Measuring the transmission characteristic of the human body in an electrostatic-coupling intra body communication system using a square test stimulus

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences

Volumn E93-A, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 664-668

  Tseng, Yuhwai ^a   Su, Chauchin ^b   Liu, Chien Nan Jimmy ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Deconvolution; Intra body communication; Square waveform

Indexed keywords

DECONVOLUTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BATTERY POWERED; ELECTROSTATIC COUPLING; HUMAN BODIES; INTRA-BODY COMMUNICATIONS; MEASUREMENT METHODOLOGY; MEASURING METHOD; SQUARE WAVEFORM; TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS;

ELECTROSTATICS;

EID: 77950802759     PISSN: 09168508     EISSN: 17451337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E93.A.664     Document Type: Article

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