Pulse shaping: The missing piece of backscatter radio and RFID

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 4774-4788

  Kimionis, John ^a   Tentzeris, Manos M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscatter radio; modulation; pulse shaping; radio frequency (RF) front end; RF identification (RFID); software defined radio (SDR); spectral efficiency

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; RADIO COMMUNICATION; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SOFTWARE RADIO;

BACKSCATTERED SIGNAL; COMMUNICATION SCHEMES; DIVERSE COMMUNICATIONS; LARGE-SCALE DEPLOYMENT; NONLINEAR COMPONENTS; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES; SPECTRUM OCCUPANCIES;

PULSE SHAPING;

EID: 84997831750     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2016.2623703     Document Type: Article

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