Planar miniature RFID antennas suitable for integration with batteries

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3700-3706

  Rodenbeck, Christopher T ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Batteries; Electrically small antennas; Radio frequency identification (RFID); UHF antennas

Indexed keywords

DIRECT INTEGRATION; ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS; ELECTRONIC COMPONENT; FORM FACTORS; MATCHING NETWORKS; MEANDER LINE; NEW DESIGN; OMNIDIRECTIONAL RADIATION PATTERN; SMALL SIZE; TWO SECTION; UHF ANTENNAS; WIRELESS DEVICES;

ANTENNAS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 34548593072     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.886503     Document Type: Article

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