Design and fabrication of wideband Archimedean spiral antenna based ultralow cost "green" modules for RFID sensing and wireless applications

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 130, Issue , 2012, Pages 241-256

  Amin, Y ^a   Chen, Q ^a   Zheng, L R ^a   Tenhunen, H ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MOBILE ANTENNAS; SUBSTRATES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ARCHIMEDEAN SPIRAL ANTENNAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC CHARACTERISTIC; INK-JET PRINTING TECHNOLOGIES; OPERATIONAL RANGE; PAPER SUBSTRATE; PARAMETRIC -ANALYSIS; STATE OF THE ART; WIRELESS APPLICATION;

SPIRAL ANTENNAS;

EID: 84866559185     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER12070807     Document Type: Article

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