Inkjet-printed humidity sensor for passive UHF RFID systems

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2768-2777

  Virtanen, Juha ^a   Ukkonen, Leena ^a   Björninen, Toni ^a   Elsherbeni, Atef Z ^b   Sydänheimo, Lauri ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Inkjet; radio frequency identification (RFIF); relative humidity (RH); sensor

Indexed keywords

HUMIDITY MEASUREMENTS; INK JET TECHNOLOGY; INKJET; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; OPERATION PRINCIPLES; PASSIVE UHF RFID; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RELATIVE HUMIDITY (RH); SENSOR TAG; TAG IDENTIFICATION; UHF RFID; ULTRA-HIGH FREQUENCY;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CRYPTOGRAPHY; HUMIDITY SENSORS;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 79960430592     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2130070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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