Sewed textile RFID tag and sensor antennas for on-body use

Proceedings of 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3450-3454

  Ukkonen, Leena ^a   Sydänheimo, Lauri ^a   Rahmat Samii, Yahya ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

conductive threads; RFID; textile antennas; wearable sensors

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA DESIGN; ANTENNA PARAMETERS; CONDUCTIVE THREADS; INPUT IMPEDANCE; MANUFACTURING METHODS; MODELING APPROACH; ON-BODY; RANGE PERFORMANCE; RF-ID TAGS; SENSOR SYSTEMS; STITCHING TECHNIQUES; TAG ANTENNA; TEXTILE ANTENNAS; WEARABLE SENSORS;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO NAVIGATION; SENSORS; TEXTILE PRINTING; TEXTILES;

WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84862900772     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6206307     Document Type: Conference Paper

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