UHF solar powered active oscillator antenna on low cost flexible substrate for wireless identification applications

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Georgiadis, Apostolos ^a   Collado, Ana ^a   Kim, Sangkil ^b   Lee, Hoseon ^b   Tentzeris, Manos M ^b  

^a Centre Technologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)   (Spain)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active antenna; Beacon generator; Energy harvesting; Flexible electronics; Harmonic balance; Solar power harvesting

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE ANTENNAS; BEACON GENERATOR; CIRCUIT IMPLEMENTATION; COPLANAR WAVEGUIDE FED; COST EFFECTIVE; EM SIMULATIONS; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; HARMONIC BALANCE; HARMONIC BALANCE SIMULATIONS; LASER PROTOTYPING; LOW COSTS; MONITORING APPLICATIONS; OPERATIONAL AUTONOMY; OSCILLATOR ANTENNAS; OSCILLATOR CIRCUITS; POWER HARVESTING; RADIATION PROPERTIES; SOLAR MODULE; SOLAR-POWERED; WIRELESS IDENTIFICATIONS;

BENCHMARKING; ENERGY HARVESTING; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; SIGNAL GENERATORS; SLOT ANTENNAS; SOLAR ENERGY;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 84866783130     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2012.6259643     Document Type: Conference Paper

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