Ultra wideband electromagnetic phantoms for antennas and propagation studies

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences

Volumn E91-A, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3173-3182

  Yamamoto, Hironobu ^a   Zhou, Jian ^b   Kobayashi, Takehiko ^a  

^a TOKYO DENKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Manulife Financial   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic phantom; Microwave; Propagation; Ultra wideband

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MICROWAVES; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SOLUTIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PHANTOM; PHANTOM MATERIALS; PROPAGATION PATHS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; ULTRA HIGH SPEED; ULTRA-WIDEBAND TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 77953369470     PISSN: 09168508     EISSN: 17451337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e91-a.11.3173     Document Type: Article

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