Inkjet printed dipole antennas on textiles for wearable communications

IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 760-767

  Chauraya, Alford ^a   Whittow, William G ^a   Vardaxoglou, Yiannis C ^a   Li, Yi ^b   Torah, Russel ^b   Yang, Kai ^b   Beeby, Steve ^b   Tudor, John ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DC RESISTANCE; FABRICATION METHODOLOGY; INTERFACE LAYER; POLYESTER COTTON FABRIC; PRINTED DIPOLE ANTENNAS; PRINTING RESOLUTION; SMOOTH SURFACE; TEXTILE ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA RADIATION; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEXTILES;

WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84880707722     PISSN: 17518725     EISSN: 17518733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-map.2013.0076     Document Type: Article

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