Multiport sensor RFIDs for wireless passive sensing of objects - Basic theory and early results

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 8 II, 2008, Pages 2691-2702

  Marrocco, Gaetano ^a   Mattioni, Lorenzo ^a   Calabrese, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Backscattering; Meander line; Multiport antenna; Radio frequency identification (RFID); Sensor network

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ANTENNAS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FREQUENCY BANDS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AND DETECTION; ANTENNA INPUT IMPEDANCE; BACKSCATTERING; BASIC THEORY; MEANDER LINE; MULTIPORT ANTENNA; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; PASSIVE SENSING; PASSIVE SENSORS; RADIO-FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SENSOR NETWORK; TAGGED OBJECTS; ULTRA-HIGH FREQUENCY BAND;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 49549111346     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.927541     Document Type: Article

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