A hybrid patch/slot implantable antenna for biotelemetry devices

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 1646-1649

  Liu, Changrong ^a,b   Guo, Yong Xin ^a   Xiao, Shaoqiu ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Implantable antenna; Medical Implant Communications Service (MICS) band; patch antenna; slot antenna; small antenna

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE SIZE; FIXED FREQUENCY; IMPLANTABLE ANTENNAS; MEANDER-SLOT; MEDICAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL IMPLANT COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES; PLANAR INVERTED-F ANTENNA; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SIZE REDUCTIONS; SMALL ANTENNA;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; SIZE DETERMINATION; SLOT ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA FEEDERS;

EID: 84873364507     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2013.2237879     Document Type: Article

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