Non-uniformly distributed-turns coil antenna for enhanced H-field in HF-RFID

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4900-4907

  Sharma, Ashwani ^a   Zuazola, Ignacio J Garcia ^a   Gupta, Anshu ^b   Perallos, Asier ^a   Batchelor, John C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEUSTO   (Spain)

^b HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coupling coefficient; H field; Inductance; Magnetically coupled coils; Quality factor; Radio frequency

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; INDUCTANCE; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

COUPLING COEFFICIENT; H-FIELD; MAGNETICALLY COUPLED COILS; QUALITY FACTORS; RADIO FREQUENCIES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84885611483     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2013.2275244     Document Type: Article

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