Textile MIMO antenna for Wireless Body Area Networks

Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EUCAP 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 428-432

  Bellon, J Santiso ^a   Cabedo Fabres, M ^a   Antonino Daviu, E ^a   Ferrando Bataller, M ^a   Penaranda Foix, F ^b  

^a ITEAM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR RING; COMPACT SOLUTIONS; FEEDING PORTS; HUMAN BODIES; MIMO ANTENNA; MULTI-MODE ANTENNA; MULTIMODES; NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT; PHASE CONFIGURATIONS; SINGLE ANTENNA; TEXTILE ANTENNAS; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; HOSIERY MANUFACTURE; MIMO SYSTEMS; TEXTILES; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 79959640532     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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