Design and in vitro test of a differentially fed dual-band implantable antenna operating at MICS and ISM Bands

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2430-2439

  Duan, Zhu ^a   Guo, Yong Xin ^a   Je, Minkyu ^a,b   Kwong, Dim Lee ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Communication link; differential feeding; dual band antennas; implanted antennas; specific absorption rate (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

DUAL BAND ANTENNAS; HALF-WAVELENGTH DIPOLES; IMPLANTABLE ANTENNAS; IMPLANTED ANTENNAS; IN-VITRO TESTS; MEDICAL IMPLANT COMMUNICATION SERVICES; MINCED PORK; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

ANTENNA FEEDERS;

EID: 84900543973     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2014.2309130     Document Type: Article

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