A focused planar microstrip array for 2.4 GHz RFID readers

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1536-1544

  Buffi, A ^a   Serra, A A ^a   Nepa, P ^a,b   Chou, H T ^c   Manara, G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CUBIT ^*  (Italy)

^c YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Microstrip planar arrays; Near field focused arrays; RFID reader antennas

Indexed keywords

FAR-FIELD; FOCUSED ARRAYS; MICROSTRIP PLANAR ARRAY; NEAR-FIELD; PHASE ARRAY; PLANAR MICROSTRIP; RFID READER ANTENNAS; RFID READERS; SPECIFIC PROBLEMS;

ARRAY PROCESSING; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

ANTENNAS;

EID: 77951997193     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2044331     Document Type: Article

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