Continuously Power Delivering for Passive Backscatter Wireless Sensor Networks

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 3723-3731

  Correia, Ricardo ^a   Borges Carvalho, Nuno ^a   Kawasaki, Shigeo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Backscatter communication; conversion efficiency; energy harvesting; wireless power transfer (WPT); wireless sensor networks (WSNs)

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ENERGY HARVESTING; INTERNET OF THINGS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

BACKSCATTER MODULATION; CONTINUOUS FLOWS; INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); RADIO-FREQUENCY ENERGY HARVESTING; RF IDENTIFICATIONS; SENSING MECHANISM; WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS);

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84988603509     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2016.2603985     Document Type: Article

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