Far-field on-chip antennas monolithically integrated in a wireless-powered 5.8-GHz downlink/UWB uplink RFID tag in 0.18-μm standard CMOS

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1746-1758

  Radiom, Soheil ^a   Baghaei Nejad, Majid ^b,c   Mohammadpour Aghdam, Karim ^a   Vandenbosch, Guy A E ^a   Zheng, Li Rong ^b   Gielen, Georges G E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c HAKIM SABZEVARI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Integrated on chip antenna; power scavenging; radiation pattern; radio frequency identification (RFID); tag; ultra wideband (UWB); UWB transmitter; wireless powering

Indexed keywords

ON CHIP ANTENNA; POWER SCAVENGING; RADIATION PATTERN; TAG; UWB TRANSMITTER; WIRELESS POWERING;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; LOOP ANTENNAS; RADIO BROADCASTING; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO LINKS; RADIO NAVIGATION; RADIO WAVES; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TRANSMITTERS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 77956221721     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2010.2055630     Document Type: Conference Paper

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