Durability of embroidered antennas in wireless body-centric healthcare applications

2013 7th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 565-569

  Koski, Karoliina ^a   Moradi, Elham ^a   Babar, A Ali ^a   Bjorninen, Toni ^a   Sydanheimo, Lauri ^a   Ukkonen, Leena ^a   Rahmat Samii, Yahya ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

body centric communication; durability; embroidered tag; RFID; washability

Indexed keywords

BODY-CENTRIC COMMUNICATIONS; EMBROIDERED TAG; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS; HEALTH CARE APPLICATION; MECHANICALLY ROBUST; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE POLYMERS; WASHABILITY; WATER TEMPERATURES;

HEALTH CARE; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SILICONES; SOAPS (DETERGENTS); WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

DURABILITY;

EID: 84881288226     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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