Adaptive power controllable retrodirective array system for wireless sensor server applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3735-3743

  Lim, Sungjoon ^a,b   Leong, Kevin M K H ^a,b   Itoh, Tatsuo ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineers of   (Japan)

^e University of Leeds ^*

Author keywords

Circular sector antenna; Harmonic rejection; Portable device; Power management; Rectenna; Retrodirective array; Wake up; Wireless sensor

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR SECTOR ANTENNA; HARMONIC REJECTION; PORTABLE DEVICES; RECTENNA;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ANTENNA ARRAYS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; LOW PASS FILTERS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; POWER CONTROL; SENSORS; SERVERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 29544438924     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.856086     Document Type: Article

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