Characterization of embroidered dipole-type RFID tag antennas

2012 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications, RFID-TA 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 248-253

  Moradi, Elham ^a   Bjorninen, 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; embroidered RFID entenna; sewing machine; UHF RFID; wearable RFID tag

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE THREADS; EFFECTIVE CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; EMBROIDERED RFID ENTENNA; HUMAN MONITORING; ON-BODY; RF-ID TAGS; RFID TAG ANTENNAS; STITCH DENSITY; TAG ANTENNA; UHF RFID; WIRELESS SENSOR;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SENSORS; SEWING MACHINES; TEXTILE PRINTING; WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84873180905     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404522     Document Type: Conference Paper

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