Performance of transparent conductive polymer antennas in a MIMO ad-hoc network

2010 IEEE 6th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, WiMob'2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 9-14

  Kirsch, Nicholas J ^a   Vacirca, Nicholas A ^a   Kurzweg, Timothy P ^a   Fontecchio, Adam K ^a   Dandekar, Kapil R ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna array; Conductive polymers; MIMO

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS; CONDUCTIVE POLYMER; DESIGN CONSTRAINTS; FORM FACTORS; MIMO; MIMO AD HOC NETWORKS; MULTIPLE ANTENNA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PACKET ERROR RATES; PERVASIVE COMPUTING; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CONDUCTIVE PLASTICS; MOBILE COMPUTING; POLYMERS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 78650755427     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WIMOB.2010.5644868     Document Type: Conference Paper

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