Wearable textile antenna magnetically coupled to flexible active electronic circuits

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 13, Issue , 2014, Pages 209-212

  Virili, M ^a   Rogier, H ^b   Alimenti, F ^a   Mezzanotte, P ^a   Roselli, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antenna feeds; Body area network (BAN); Body centric communication; Flexible electronics; Magnetic coupling; Non ohmic contacts interconnections; Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags; Textile technology; Transformers; Wearable electronics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894649154     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2014.2301277     Document Type: Article

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