Wireless measurement of RFID IC impedance

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3194-3206

  Björninen, Toni ^a   Lauri, Mikko ^a   Ukkonen, Leena ^a   Ritala, Risto ^a   Elsherbeni, Atef Z ^b   Sydänheimo, Lauri ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Error analysis; impedance measurement; microwave antennas; microwave radio communication; Monte Carlo methods

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING STATE; ADVANCED EQUIPMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; INPUT IMPEDANCE; MICROWAVE RADIO COMMUNICATION; MONTE CARLO; PARASITICS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RF-ID TAGS; THRESHOLD POWER; WIRELESS MEASUREMENTS;

ANTENNAS; CRYPTOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIO COMMUNICATION; RADIO NAVIGATION;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 80051817036     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2123190     Document Type: Article

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