Millimeter-wave identification - A new short-range radio system for low-power high data-rate applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2221-2228

  Pursula, Pekka ^a   Vähä Heikkilä, Tauno ^a   Müller, Alexandru ^b   Neculoiu, Dan ^b   Konstantinidis, George ^c   Oja, Aarne ^a   Tuovinen, Jussi ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN MICROTECHNOLOGIES   (Romania)

^c INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

Author keywords

Backscattering; Millimeter waves; Millimeter wave identification (MMID); RF identification (RFID)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BACKSCATTERING; MILLIMETER WAVES;

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM; AUTOMOTIVE RADAR; HIGH DATA RATE APPLICATIONS; MASS MEMORY; MILLIMETER WAVE FREQUENCIES; MILLIMETER-WAVE IDENTIFICATIONS; RF IDENTIFICATIONS; SHORT-RANGE RADIO;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 54049090311     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.2004252     Document Type: Article

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