Wearable textile antennas' efficiency characterization using a reverberation chamber

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, AP-S International Symposium (Digest)

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 810-813

  Soh, P J ^a,b   Vandenbosch, G A E ^a   Chen, X ^c   Kildal, P S ^c   Ooi, S L ^b,d   Aliakbarian, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

^d Sulucon Research   (United States)

Author keywords

broadband antennas; Planar Inverted F Antenna (PIFA); textile antenna; wearable antennas

Indexed keywords

BROAD-BAND ANTENNA; CONDUCTIVE TEXTILES; INVERTED-F; PLANAR INVERTED-F ANTENNA; PURE COPPER; REVERBERATION CHAMBERS; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; SYMMETRICAL DESIGN; TEXTILE ANTENNA; TEXTILE ANTENNAS;

ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; ANTENNA RADIATION; EFFICIENCY; REVERBERATION; SLOT ANTENNAS; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; TEXTILES;

WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 80055002855     PISSN: 15223965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APS.2011.5996397     Document Type: Conference Paper

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