A Battery-Assisted Passive EPC Gen-2 RFID Sensor Tag IC with Efficient Battery Power Management and RF Energy Harvesting

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 7112-7123

  Duong, Vinh Hao ^a   Hieu, Nguyen Xuan ^a   Lee, Hyun Sik ^a   Lee, Jong Wook ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Battery assisted passive (BAP); CMOS; power management; radio frequency identification (RFID); sensor tag; ultrahigh frequency (UHF)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; CHOPPER AMPLIFIERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; MULTIPLEXING; POWER MANAGEMENT; RADIO WAVES; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; SECONDARY BATTERIES; TIMING CIRCUITS;

BATTERY ASSISTED PASSIVES; COMPENSATION TECHNIQUES; EFFICIENT POWER MANAGEMENTS; ONE-TIME PROGRAMMABLE MEMORY; PROGRAMMABLE GAIN AMPLIFIER; SENSOR TAG; STANDARD CMOS PROCESS; ULTRA-HIGH FREQUENCY;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 84994704319     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2016.2585463     Document Type: Article

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