A passive RFID tag antenna installed in a recessed cavity in a metallic platform

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3814-3820

  Kim, Dongho ^a   Yeo, Junho ^b  

^a Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^b Daegu University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Antenna; genetic algorithm (GA); metallic cavity; RFID; tag

Indexed keywords

BOW-TIE ANTENNAS; CAVITY BACKED ANTENNA; COUPLING EFFECT; EQUIVALENT-CIRCUIT MODEL; IMPEDANCE MATCHING TECHNIQUE; IMPEDANCE MATCHINGS; INPUT IMPEDANCE; LUMPED ELEMENT; MAIN PARAMETERS; METALLIC CAVITY; METALLIC OBJECTS; PASSIVE RFID; RF-ID TAGS; RFID; TAG; TAG ANTENNA;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); OPTIMIZATION; RADIO NAVIGATION;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 78650030252     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2078438     Document Type: Article

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