Improving backscatter radio tag efficiency

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1502-1509

  Bletsas, Aggelos ^a,b   Dimitriou, Antonis G ^a,b   Sahalos, John N ^a,b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Minimum scattering; Receiver sensitivity; RF identification (RFID); Structural mode

Indexed keywords

CLOSED FORM; COMPLEX REFLECTION COEFFICIENT; MINIMUM SCATTERING ANTENNAS; RECEIVER SENSITIVITY; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; RF IDENTIFICATIONS; RF-ID TAGS; STRUCTURAL MODE; STRUCTURAL MODES; TAG ANTENNA; TWO-STATE;

BACKSCATTERING; OPTIMIZATION; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RADIO NAVIGATION; REFLECTION;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 77955678553     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2047916     Document Type: Article

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