A New Wireless Displacement Sensor Based on Reverse Design of Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Antenna Array

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1557-1566

  Rizzoli, Vittorio ^a   Costanzo, Alessandra ^a   Montanari, Emanuele ^a   Benedetti, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antenna array; displacement sensor; interferometry; radio frequency identification (RFID)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; CRACKS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); INTERFEROMETRY; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MOBILE ANTENNAS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO WAVES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DISPLACEMENT SENSOR; MILLIMETER WAVE ANTENNA ARRAYS; MILLIMETER WAVE FREQUENCIES; NONDESTRUCTIVE SENSORS; OPERATING PRINCIPLES; RADIATION CHARACTERISTICS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY; STRUCTURAL DISPLACEMENT;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84989332181     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2026992     Document Type: Article

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