Study of a uniplanar monopole antenna for passive chipless UWB-RFID localization system

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 271-278

  Hu, Sanming ^a,b   Zhou, Yuan ^b   Law, Choi Look ^b   Dou, Wenbin ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Backscattering; Passive chipless tag; Radar cross section (RCS); Radio frequency identification (RFID); Ultrawideband (UWB) antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA STRUCTURES; FREQUENCY AND TIME DOMAINS; LOCALIZATION SYSTEM; MONOPOLE ANTENNA; RECEIVER STRUCTURE; SYSTEM APPLICATIONS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND ANTENNAS;

BACKSCATTERING; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR CROSS SECTION;

MONOPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 76849114892     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2037760     Document Type: Article

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