The switched injection-locked oscillator: A novel versatile concept for wireless transponder and localization systems

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 859-866

  Vossiek, Martin ^a,b   Gulden, Peter ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Symeo GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Backscatter transponder; Oscillators; Radar; Radio navigation; Radio position measurement; RF identification (RFID); Secondary radar; Transponders

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; MOBILE DEVICES; POSITION MEASUREMENT; RADAR SYSTEMS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO NAVIGATION; TRANSPONDERS;

BACKSCATTER TRANSPONDERS; RADIO POSITION MEASUREMENT; SECONDARY RADARS;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 41949105252     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.918158     Document Type: Article

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