RF tag front-end design for uncompromised communication and harvesting

2014 IEEE RFID Technology and Applications Conference, RFID-TA 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 109-114

  Kimionis, John ^a   Tentzeris, Manos M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

backscatter radio; communication; harvesting; RFID; tag design

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COMMUNICATION; COSTS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ENERGY HARVESTING; HARVESTERS; HARVESTING; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RECTENNAS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

COMMUNICATION PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATIONAL ABILITY; FRONT-END DESIGN; LOW-POWER COMMUNICATION; RF FRONT END; RF-ID TAGS; SINGLE TRANSISTORS; SWITCHING MECHANISM;

RADIO COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84912130713     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFID-TA.2014.6934210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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