Passive UHF RFID tag with multiple sensing capabilities

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 26769-26782

  Fernández Salmerón, José ^a   Rivadeneyra, Almudena ^a   Martínez Martí, Fernando ^b   Capitán Vallvey, Luis Fermín ^b   Palma, Alberto J ^b   Carvajal, Miguel A ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Printed electronics; RFID tag; Screen printing; Sensor; Switch; UHF antenna

Indexed keywords

CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; FREQUENCY BANDS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SCREEN PRINTING; SENSORS; SUPPLY CHAINS; SWITCHES;

DIFFERENT STAGES; ELECTRONIC SWITCHES; PASSIVE UHF RFID; PRINTED ELECTRONICS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TAGS; RF-ID TAGS; UHF ANTENNAS; ULTRA-HIGH FREQUENCY BANDS;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 84948145162     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s151026769     Document Type: Article

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