A chipless RFID sensor system for cyber centric monitoring applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1303-1309

  Shrestha, Sudhir ^a   Balachandran, Mercyma ^a   Agarwal, Mangilal ^a   Phoha, Vir V ^b   Varahramyan, Kody ^c  

^a LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chipless RF identification (RFID) sensor system; Cyber centric monitoring; Passive tags; RFID reader; Transmission line identification (ID) generation

Indexed keywords

CHIPLESS RF IDENTIFICATION (RFID) SENSOR SYSTEM; CYBER CENTRIC MONITORING; PASSIVE TAGS; RFID READER; TRANSMISSION LINE IDENTIFICATION (ID) GENERATION;

ANTENNAS; BANDPASS FILTERS; ELECTRIC LINES; ETHYLENE; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

SENSORS;

EID: 67649248953     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2009.2017298     Document Type: Article

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