Wearable circularly polarized antenna for personal satellite communication and navigation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4490-4496

  Kaivanto, Emmi K ^a   Berg, Markus ^a   Salonen, Erkki ^a   De Maagt, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

circularly polarized antenna; Dual band patch antenna; textile antenna; wireless body area network (WBAN)

Indexed keywords

AXIAL RATIO; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED ANTENNAS; DUAL-BAND; DUAL-BAND PATCH ANTENNA; FIRE FIGHTING; HEALTH MONITORING; INTEGRATION INTO CLOTHING; PERSONAL SATELLITE COMMUNICATION; RECTANGULAR PATCH ANTENNA; TEXTILE ANTENNA; TEXTILE ANTENNAS; TEXTILE MATERIALS; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK (WBAN);

IRIDIUM; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE ANTENNAS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TEXTILES; WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

SATELLITE ANTENNAS;

EID: 82455164658     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2165513     Document Type: Article

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