Wearable aperture-coupled shorted solar patch antenna for remote tracking and monitoring applications

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2992-2996

  Declercq, F ^a   Georgiadis, A ^b   Rogier, H ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Centre Tecnologic de Telecommunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA GAINS; APERTURE COUPLED; DC POWER; FLEXIBLE FOAMS; FLEXIBLE SOLAR CELLS; ISM BANDS; MONITORING APPLICATIONS; ON-BODY; PARALLEL-CONNECTED; PATCH ANTENNA; RADIATION CHARACTERISTICS; REMOTE TRACKING; SHORTED PATCH ANTENNAS; TEXTILE MATERIALS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 79959679566     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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