Low voltage reference cells for UHF transponders with advanced features

2009 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Communications, Antennas and Electronics Systems, COMCAS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Heidrich, Juergen ^a   Brenk, Daniel ^a   Essel, Jochen ^a   Hofer, Guenter ^b   Holweg, Gerald ^b   Fischer, Georg ^a   Weigel, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bandgap; Local positioning; Low power; Low voltage; Modulated backscattering; Radio frequency identification; RC oscillator; RFID; UHF transponder; Wireless sensing

Indexed keywords

BAND GAPS; LOCAL POSITIONING; LOW POWER; LOW VOLTAGE; RC OSCILLATORS; UHF TRANSPONDERS; WIRELESS SENSING;

BACKSCATTERING; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; ENERGY GAP; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVES; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO WAVES; TRANSPONDERS;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 77949864297     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COMCAS.2009.5385971     Document Type: Conference Paper

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