Textile antennas and sensors for body-worn applications

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 1690-1693

  Zhang, Lanlin ^a   Wang, Zheyu ^a   Volakis, John L ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Body worn RF devices; electronic composite fibers; textile embroidered antennas; textile medical sensors

Indexed keywords

BODYWORN ANTENNAS; CONDUCTIVE POLYMER; ELECTRONIC COMPOSITES; FLEXIBLE POLYMERS; HIGH PRECISION; HIGH-STRENGTH; MEDICAL SENSORS; METALLIC COATING; MICROSTRIP TRANSMISSION LINES; MULTIBAND; POLYMER DIELECTRICS; RF CHARACTERISTICS; RF DEVICES; RF PERFORMANCE; TEXTILE ANTENNAS;

FIBERS; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; SENSORS; TEXTILES;

WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84873368492     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2013.2239956     Document Type: Article

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