Sensitivity and impedance measurements of UHF RFID chips

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1297-1302

  Nikitin, Pavel V ^a   Rao, K V Seshagiri ^a   Martinez, Rene ^a   Lam, Sander F ^a  

^a Intermec Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Impedance; Integrated circuits (ICs); RF identification (RFID)

Indexed keywords

CHIP ASSEMBLY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLIP CHIP; IMPEDANCE; IMPEDANCE MATCHINGS; IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; OUTPUT POWER; RF IDENTIFICATIONS; RFID READERS; UHF RFID; VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZERS;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 77958085428     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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