A compact UWB antenna for on-body applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1123-1131

  Chahat, Nacer ^a   Zhadobov, Maxim ^a   Sauleau, Ronan ^a   Ito, Koichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body area network (BAN); body centric wireless communications; compact antenna; printed antenna; ultrawideband (UWB) antenna

Indexed keywords

BODY-AREA NETWORK (BAN); COMPACT ANTENNA; PRINTED ANTENNA; ULTRAWIDEBAND (UWB) ANTENNA; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; RADIO BROADCASTING; RADIO TRANSMISSION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 79953803342     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2109361     Document Type: Article

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