Effects of twisting and bending on the performance of a miniaturized truncated sinusoidal printed circuit antenna for wearable biomedical telemetry devices

AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 217-225

  Elwi, Taha A ^a   Al Rizzo, Hussain M ^a   Rucker, Daniel G ^a   Khaleel, Haider R ^a  

^a University of Arkansas at Little Rock ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bending; Meander; Twisting; Wearable antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA SIZE; BEND ANGLE; BENDING; BIOMEDICAL TELEMETRY; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; FREE SPACE; FREQUENCY RANGES; LOSS TANGENT; MEANDER; PRINTED-CIRCUIT ANTENNA; RELATIVE PERMITTIVITY; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; RESONANT MODE; SHORTING PLATE; SMART CLOTHES; TWISTING; WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; HEALTH CARE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PRINTED CIRCUITS; TELEMETERING EQUIPMENT;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 78751585214     PISSN: 14348411     EISSN: 16180399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aeue.2010.03.008     Document Type: Article

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