Development of a low cost printable chipless RFID humidity sensor

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 140-149

  Amin, Emran Md ^a   Bhuiyan, Md Shakil ^a   Karmakar, Nemai C ^a   Winther Jensen, Bjorn ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chipless RFID; Humidity; Sensor; Tag

Indexed keywords

CHIPLESS RFID; FREQUENCY DEVIATION; FREQUENCY-SHIFTING; HUMIDITY SENSITIVE; IDENTIFICATION DATA; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TAGS; TAG;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SENSORS;

HUMIDITY SENSORS;

EID: 84887915259     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2013.2278560     Document Type: Article

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