Semi-passive time-domain UWB RFID system

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1700-1708

  Ramos, Angel ^a   Lazaro, Antonio ^a   Girbau, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Continuous wavelet transform (CWT); radio frequency identification (RFID); time domain; ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORMS; DIODE RECTIFIER; DOWNLINK CHANNELS; INTERNAL COMPARATORS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; REFLECTED PULSE; TIME DOMAIN; ULTRA-WIDEBAND RADIO;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; RADAR; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; WAKES;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 84876038419     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2013.2247056     Document Type: Article

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