Performance of single and double T-matched short dipole tag antennas for UHF RFID systems

Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 953-962

  Björninen, Toni ^a   Elsherbeni, Atef Z ^b   Ukkonen, Leena ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Double T matching; Impedance matching; Passive UHF RFID; Tag antenna; Tmatching

Indexed keywords

CHIP IMPEDANCES; DESIGN UNCERTAINTY; DOUBLE T-MATCHING; EFFICIENT COMPUTATION; MAXIMUM POWER TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENT; PASSIVE UHF RFID; POWER TRANSFERS; TAG ANTENNA; TMATCHING; UHF RFID;

ASTRONOMY; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC);

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84861325807     PISSN: 10544887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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