An overview of near field UHF RFID

2007 IEEE International Conference on RFID, IEEE RFID 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 167-174

  Nikitin, Pavel ^a   Rao, K V S ^a   Lazar, Steve ^b  

^a Intermec Inc   (United States)

^b TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA COUPLING; BASIC THEORY; FAR FIELD; ITEM-LEVEL; NEAR FIELDS; UHF RFID;

EID: 84882267994     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFID.2007.346165     Document Type: Conference Paper

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