A truncated conical dielectric resonator antenna for body-area network applications

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 279-282

  Almpanis, Georgios ^a   Fumeaux, Christophe ^b   Fröhlich, Jürg ^a   Vahldieck, Rüdiger ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body area network (BAN); Dielectric resonator antennas (DRAS); Ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BODY-AREA NETWORK (BAN); DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNAS; DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNAS (DRAS); DISPERSION EFFECT; FEEDING MECHANISM; FREE SPACE; IMPULSE VOLTAGE; LOW-PROFILE ANTENNAS; NETWORK APPLICATIONS; ON-BODY; TIME DOMAIN; ULTRA-WIDEBAND FREQUENCY BANDS; WIDE BANDWIDTH;

DIELECTRIC RESONATORS; FREQUENCY BANDS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MONOPOLE ANTENNAS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 77954977883     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2008.2005213     Document Type: Article

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