Enhancement of RF tag backscatter efficiency with low-power reflection amplifiers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3562-3571

  Kimionis, John ^a   Georgiadis, Apostolos ^b   Collado, Ana ^b   Tentzeris, Manos M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Centre Tecnologic de Telecommunicacions de Catalunya   (Spain)

Author keywords

Backscatter radio; increased singal to noise ratio (SNR); reflection amplifier; RF identification (RFID) sensors; scattering efficiency

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BACKSCATTERING; EFFICIENCY; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFTERS; RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); REFLECTION; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

BACKSCATTER SIGNALS; COEFFICIENT VALUES; COMMUNICATION RANGE; NOISE RATIO; REFLECTION AMPLIFIERS; RF IDENTIFICATIONS; SCATTERING EFFICIENCY; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR);

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84916886337     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2014.2363835     Document Type: Article

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