A smart beam steering RFID interrogator for passive tags in item level tagging applications

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 575-578

  Chia, Michael Y W ^a   Ang, Karen C M ^a   Chee, K L ^a   Leong, S W ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Beamforming; RFID

Indexed keywords

DELAY CIRCUITS; MICROWAVES; RADIO NAVIGATION;

ANGULAR RESOLUTIONS; DIRECT DIGITAL SYNTHESIZERS; EXTERNAL REFERENCE CLOCKS; ISO STANDARDS; ITEM LEVELS; LOW COSTS; OPERATING ENVIRONMENTS; PASSIVE RFID; PASSIVE TAGS; REFERENCE TIMES; RFID; SMART BEAMS; TRANSCEIVER SYSTEMS; UHF BANDS;

TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 57349106534     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2008.4633231     Document Type: Conference Paper

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