Advanced carbon-fiber composite materials for RFID tag antenna applications

Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 218-229

  Mehdipour, Aidin ^a   Rosca, Iosif D ^a   Sebak, Abdel Razik ^a   Trueman, Christopher W ^a   Hoa, Suong V ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antenna; Carbon fiber composites (CFC); Radiating element; Radio frequency identification (RFID)

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC PROPERTY; ANTENNA APPLICATIONS; ANTENNA SIMULATIONS; BOW-TIE ANTENNAS; CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE; CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CARBON-FIBER COMPOSITES (CFC); ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELS; FIBER ORIENTATIONS; MEANDER LINE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE STUDIOS; RADIATING ELEMENTS; RADIATION RESISTANCE; RFID ANTENNAE; RFID TAG ANTENNAS;

CARBON FIBERS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBERS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RADIO NAVIGATION; STRUCTURAL MEMBERS;

ANTENNAS;

CARBON FIBERS; COMPOSITES; DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIMULATION; STRUCTURAL MEMBERS;

EID: 77957560434     PISSN: 10544887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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