Feasibility of passive wireless sensors based on reflected electro-material signatures

Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 552-560

  Hasan, Azhar ^a   Peterson, Andrew F ^a   Durgin, Gregory D ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse scattering; Neural networks; RFID; Sensors

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE ABSOLUTE ERROR; BACK-SCATTERED; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; FREQUENCY RANGES; INPUT REFLECTION COEFFICIENT; INVERSE SCATTERING; LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT ALGORITHM; MATERIAL PARAMETER; MATERIAL PROFILES; MEASURED DATA; PASSIVE SENSING; PASSIVE SENSOR; PASSIVE WIRELESS SENSORS; PERMITTIVITY PROFILES; RFID; RFID APPLICATIONS; RFID TECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCATTERING; SENSORS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 77958108569     PISSN: 10544887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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