Textile UWB Antennas for Wireless Body Area Networks

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3192-3197

  Klemm, Maciej ^a   Troester, Gerhard ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Body area networks; textile antennas; ultrawide band (UWB)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008049835     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.883978     Document Type: Article

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