Measurement and performance of textile antenna efficiency on a human body in a reverberation chamber

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 871-881

  Boyes, Stephen J ^a   Soh, Ping Jack ^b   Huang, Yi ^a   Vandenbosch, Guy A E ^b   Khiabani, Neda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antenna efficiency; on body communications; reverberation chamber; textile antennas

Indexed keywords

ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; ANTENNA RADIATION; EFFICIENCY; REVERBERATION; TEXTILE FINISHING; TEXTILES;

ANTENNA EFFICIENCY; COMMUNICATION RESEARCH; EFFICIENCY DEGRADATION; EFFICIENCY LEVELS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FREE SPACES; FREQUENCY DETUNING; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN SUBJECTS; MATERIAL DESIGNS; MATERIAL SELECTION; ON-BODY; PERFORMANCE EFFECT; RADIATION EFFICIENCY; REVERBERATION CHAMBERS; TEXTILE ANTENNAS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84873287353     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2225817     Document Type: Article

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