Passive wireless temperature sensor based on time-coded UWB chipless RFID tags

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3623-3632

  Girbau, David ^a   Ramos, Ángel ^a   Lazaro, Antonio ^a   Rima, Sergi ^a   Villarino, Ramón ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chipless tag; RF identification (RFID); Ultra wideband (UWB); Wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); TEMPERATURE SENSORS; WAVES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

BACKSCATTERED SIGNAL; CHIPLESS TAG; FREQUENCY SWEEPING; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; PASSIVE SENSOR; RF IDENTIFICATIONS; RF-ID TAGS; SENSOR SYSTEMS; SENSOR TAG; UWB ANTENNA; UWB RADARS; VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZERS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 84869211201     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2012.2213838     Document Type: Article

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