Effects of sewing pattern on the performance of embroidered dipole-type RFID tag antennas

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 1482-1485

  Moradi, Elham ^a   Björninen, Toni ^a   Ukkonen, Leena ^a   Rahmat Samii, Yahya ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conductive thread; sewed tag antenna; wearable radio frequency identification (RFID); wearable tag antenna

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE THREADS; CURRENT FLOWS; FREE SPACES; HUMAN MONITORING; ON-BODY; RFID TAG ANTENNAS; SENSOR TAG; TAG ANTENNA;

ACCESS CONTROL; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84871834664     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2012.2231393     Document Type: Article

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