Design of a broadband all-textile slotted PIFA

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 379-384

  Soh, Ping Jack ^a,b   Vandenbosch, Guy A E ^a   Ooi, Soo Liam ^b   Rais, Nurul Husna Mohd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Broadband antennas; conformal antennas; planar inverted f antennas (PIFA); textile antennas

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH BROADENING; BROAD-BAND ANTENNA; CONDUCTIVE TEXTILES; CONFORMAL ANTENNAS; COPPER FOILS; DETUNINGS; HIGH BANDWIDTH; MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS; ON-BODY; PIFA ANTENNA; PLANAR INVERTED-F ANTENNA; PURE COPPER; RADIATING PATCHES; RADIATION CHARACTERISTICS; TEXTILE ANTENNAS; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

BANDWIDTH; CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; COPPER; FREQUENCY BANDS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SLOT ANTENNAS; WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

TEXTILES;

EID: 84855419769     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2167950     Document Type: Article

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