RFID test platform: Nonlinear characterization

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2299-2305

  Vera, Gianfranco Andia ^a   Duroc, Yvan ^b   Tedjini, Smail ^a  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Harmonic balance (HB); harmonics; nonlinearity; radio frequency identification (RFID); rectifier; UHF passive tags

Indexed keywords

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

HARMONIC BALANCE; HARMONICS; NONLINEARITY; PASSIVE TAGS; RECTIFIER;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84906315133     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2014.2307754     Document Type: Article

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