Active integrated wearable textile antenna with optimized noise characteristics

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3050-3054

  Declercq, Frederick ^a   Rogier, Hendrik ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Active integrated antenna; textile substrates; wearable computing

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE ANTENNAS; ACTIVE INTEGRATED ANTENNA; ANTENNA GAINS; CO-OPTIMIZATION; HUMAN BODIES; ISM BANDS; MULTI-PLATFORM; NOISE CHARACTERISTIC; ON-BODY; PATCH ANTENNA; PERSONAL AREA NETWORKS; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; TEXTILE ANTENNAS; TEXTILE MATERIALS; TEXTILE SUBSTRATES; WEARABLE COMPUTING;

ANTENNAS; OPTIMIZATION; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SUBSTRATES; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

TEXTILES;

EID: 77956387768     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2052555     Document Type: Article

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