Influence of multiantenna tag on the read range of a passive UHF RFID system

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages 1174-1177

  Seigneuret, Gary ^a,b   Bergeret, Emmanuel ^b   Moreaux, Christophe ^a   Deleruyelle, Thibaut ^c   Pannier, Philippe ^b  

^a STMICROELECTRONICS   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c Institut Superieur de l'Electronique et du Numerique   (France)

Author keywords

Antenna; passive radio frequency identification (RFID); read range; rectifiers

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BACKSCATTERING; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

ANTENNA GAINS; ANTENNA SYSTEM; CMOS PROCESSS; MEASUREMENTS OF; MULTI-ANTENNA; PASSIVE RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); PASSIVE UHF RFID; READ RANGE;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 80155129550     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2011.2172177     Document Type: Article

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