Characterization of a plain broadband textile PIFA

Radioengineering

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 718-725

  Soh, P J ^a,b   Vandenbosch, G A E ^a   Ooi, S L ^b   Nurul, H M R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Bbroadband antennas; Conformal antennas; On body communication; Planar inverted F antenna (PIFA); Textile antennas

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857822758     PISSN: 12102512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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