Humidity sensing by polymer-loaded UHF RFID antennas

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2851-2858

  Manzari, Sabina ^a   Occhiuzzi, Cecilia ^a   Nawale, Shankar ^b   Catini, Alexandro ^a   Di Natale, Corrado ^a   Marrocco, Gaetano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b VEERMATA JIJABAI TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Humidity; PEDOT:PSS; polymer; radio frequency identification (RFID); sensor

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT HUMIDITY; CHEMICAL SPECIES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HUMIDITY SENSING; MEDICAL FIELDS; PEDOT:PSS; PHYSICAL STATE; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TAGS; RADIO SENSORS; SENSITIVE MATERIALS; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT; TAGGED OBJECT; UHF RFID ANTENNA;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; POLYMERS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SENSORS;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS;

EID: 84864677724     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2012.2202897     Document Type: Article

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