A low power RF harvester for a smart passive sensor tag with integrated antenna

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 176, Issue , 2012, Pages 34-45

  Broutas, Panagiotis ^a   Contopanagos, Harry ^a   Kyriakis Bitzaros, Efstathios D ^b   Tsoukalas, Dimitrios ^a   Chatzandroulis, Stavros ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Greece)

^b TEI of Peiraeus   (Greece)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Passive sensor tag; RF harvester; RFID sensors; Structural health monitoring; UHF Antennas

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED ANTENNA; EXCESS ENERGY; FULLY OPERATIONAL; GROUND PLANES; INDOOR MEASUREMENT; INTEGRATED ANTENNAS; LOW POWER; LOW POWER RF; METAL STRUCTURES; PASSIVE SENSOR; RF-POWER; RFID SENSORS; SENSOR MEASUREMENTS; SENSOR TAG; STANDBY MODE; STRUCTURAL HEALTH; TIME INTERVAL; UHF ANTENNAS;

ANTENNAS; ENERGY HARVESTING; HARVESTERS; MICROCONTROLLERS; SIGNAL GENERATORS;

SENSORS;

EID: 84857645683     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2011.12.053     Document Type: Article

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