Improving the near-metal performance of UHF RFID tags

RFID 2010: International IEEE Conference on RFID

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 187-194

  Deavours, Daniel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna feeds; Antennas; Impedance matching; Microstrip antennas; RFID

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDS; ANTENNA MODEL; ANTENNA PARAMETERS; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; DIELECTRIC SPACERS; FREE SPACE; GROUND PLANES; IMPEDANCE MATCHING; IMPEDANCE MATCHINGS; IMPEDANCE MISMATCH; INPUT REACTANCE; UHF RFID;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); METALS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; RADIO NAVIGATION;

ANTENNA FEEDERS;

EID: 77953900422     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFID.2010.5467273     Document Type: Conference Paper

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