Development of nonsuperstrate implantable low-profile CPW-fed ceramic antennas

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages 599-602

  Chien, Tsung Fu ^a   Cheng, Chien Min ^b   Yang, Hung Chi ^b   Jiang, Jian Wei ^b   Luo, Ching Hsing ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ceramic substrate; direct tissue loading; implantable antenna; nonsuperstrate

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC SUBSTRATE; CERAMIC SUBSTRATES; CPW-FED; DIRECT CONTACT; DIRECT TISSUE LOADING; GAIN STABILITY; HIGH DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; HIGH QUALITY FACTORS; IMPLANTABLE ANTENNAS; LOW PROFILE; MEDICAL IMPLANT COMMUNICATION SERVICES; MICROWAVE DIELECTRIC CERAMICS; MONOPOLE ANTENNA; STABLE CHARACTERISTICS; SUPERSTRATES;

BANDPASS FILTERS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; FREQUENCY BANDS; LOADING; SUBSTRATES; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TISSUE;

MONOPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 77954571159     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2010.2053342     Document Type: Article

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