Intermodulation read-out principle for passive wireless sensors

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 59, Issue 4 PART 1, 2011, Pages 1025-1031

  Viikari, Ville ^a   Seppä, Heikki ^a   Kim, Dong Wook ^b  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Mixers; RF identification (RFID); wireless sensors

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; INTERMODULATION FREQUENCIES; MIXERS; MIXING ELEMENTS; PASSIVE WIRELESS SENSORS; RESISTIVE SENSOR; RF IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SENSOR DATA; WIRELESS SENSOR;

CRYPTOGRAPHY; INTERMODULATION; MIXERS (MACHINERY); RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SENSORS;

INDUCTIVE SENSORS;

EID: 79954589551     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2011.2108309     Document Type: Article

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