Affordable ink-jet printed antennas for RFID applications

IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 878-883

  Pranonsatit, Suneat ^a   Worasawate, Denchai ^a   Sritanavut, Parichart ^a  

^a KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Direct write method; ink jet printing; radio frequency identification (RFID) measurements; RFID tag antennas

Indexed keywords

DIRECT WRITE; INK-JET; MANUFACTURING COST; PRINTED ANTENNA; PRINTING TECHNIQUES; RADIATED POWER; RADIO FREQUENCIES; READING RANGE; RFID APPLICATIONS; RFID CHIPS; RFID TAG ANTENNAS; TUNING STUBS;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS; INK JET PRINTERS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO NAVIGATION;

INK JET PRINTING;

EID: 84860871559     PISSN: 21563950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCPMT.2012.2186571     Document Type: Article

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