On-body transmission at 5.2 GHz: Simulations using FDTD with a time domain huygens' technique

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3910-3917

  Dumanli, Sema ^a   Railton, Chris J ^b  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain technique; Huygens' technique; on body transmission; slot antenna

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN TECHNIQUE; HUMAN BODIES; HUYGENS; NEAR FIELDS; NUMERICAL PHANTOMS; ON-BODY; RETURN LOSS; TIME DOMAIN; TISSUE TYPES; TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENTS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; SLOT ANTENNAS; TISSUE;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 80053647669     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2163786     Document Type: Article

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