Harmonic radar transceiver design: Miniature tags for insect tracking

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2825-2832

  Colpitts, Bruce G ^a   Boiteau, Gilles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antenna measurements; Dipole antennas; Radar applications; Radar theory; Radio tracking; Schottky diodes; Transceivers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; RADAR SYSTEMS; RADAR THEORY; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ANTENNA MEASUREMENTS; HARMONIC RADAR; RADIO TRACKING;

TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 4344707403     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.835166     Document Type: Article

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