Feasibility of ultra-wideband SAW RFID tags meeting FCC rules

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 812-820

  Härmä, Sanna ^a   Plessky, Victor P ^a,b   Li, Xianyi ^c   Hartogh, Paul ^c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b GVR Trade SA   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVICE PERFORMANCE; LOW COSTS; LOW DUTY FACTOR; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; POWER LEVELS; RADIOFREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TAGS; RF-ID TAGS; SAW TAG; SMALL CHIP SIZE; SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES; ULTRA-WIDEBAND TECHNOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; RADIO NAVIGATION; SAWING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PACKAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MICROWAVES; PRODUCT LABELING;

EID: 67650609148     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1104     Document Type: Article

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