Wearable endfire textile antenna for on-body communications at 60 GHz

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 799-802

  Chahat, Nacer ^a   Zhadobov, Maxim ^a   Le Coq, Laurent ^a   Sauleau, Ronan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Body area network (BAN); endfire radiation; millimeter waves; textile antennas; wearable antennas; Yagi Uda

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORKS; END-FIRE; ENDFIRE ANTENNAS; FREE SPACES; HUMAN BODIES; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; MAXIMUM GAIN; ON-BODY; TEXTILE ANTENNAS; TEXTILE SUBSTRATES; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; YAGI-UDA; YAGI-UDA ANTENNAS;

MILLIMETER WAVES; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); TEXTILES; TISSUE; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84864775685     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2012.2207698     Document Type: Article

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