Design of a near-field focused reflectarray antenna for 2.4 GHz RFID reader applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1013-1018

  Chou, Hsi Tseng ^a   Hung, Tso Ming ^a   Wang, Nan Nan ^b   Chou, Hsi Hsir ^a   Tung, Chia ^a   Nepa, Paolo ^c  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Microstrip antenna; near field focused antennas; reflectarray; RFID antennas

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; NEAR-FIELD; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; RADIATED FIELD; RADIATION CHARACTERISTICS; REFLECTARRAY ANTENNAS; REFLECTARRAYS; RFID ANTENNAS; RFID READERS;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 79952176507     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2103030     Document Type: Article

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