Textile antennas as hybrid energy-harvesting platforms

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 102, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1833-1857

  Lemey, Sam ^a   Declercq, Frederick ^a,b   Rogier, Hendrik ^a,c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b ON SEMICONDUCTOR   (Belgium)

^c IMinds Vzw   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; energy management; energy storage; interactive textiles; smart fabrics; textile antenna; wearable antenna

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; ENERGY STORAGE; FABRICS; POWER MANAGEMENT; RECTENNAS; SMART TEXTILES; STORAGE MANAGEMENT;

BODY-CENTRIC COMMUNICATIONS; CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; DIFFERENT ENERGY SOURCES; ENERGY EFFICIENT; INTERACTIVE TEXTILES; MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEMS; POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; TEXTILE ANTENNAS;

WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84908235766     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2014.2355872     Document Type: Article

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