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... output variables in S-parameters are based on incident and reflected voltage waves instead of voltages and currents The S-parameters takes advantage of the fact that there is no reflection ina line ... 3.2 Application example The S11 and S21 parameters can be obtained as given by expressions (21) and (22), indicated in Fig 7, and the values are calculated as for S11 and S21, respectively As an ... imaginary and real part, so that it is possible to infer a capacitive and/ or inductive behavior of the circuit, among other information 14 Current Trends andChallengesin RFID Fig 10 S11 parameter...
... operation The parasitic capacitances may result from the capacitor formed between the gate and the channel, between gate and source/drain, and between drain/source and substrate 3.1 Gate capacitances ... can be applied The applicable methods for bandwidth enhancement are: a Shunt-peaking: suitable for conjugate matching with non-standard intermediate impedance b Wideband matching method: suitable ... Trends andChallengesin RFID As can be observed from Fig 1, the gate extends over the drain and the source areas Therefore, there is an overlapping capacitance between the gate and the drain/source...
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... Reader Operation Ahmed Toaha Mobashsher1, Mohammad Tariqul Islam1 and Norbahiah Misran2 1Institute of Space Science (ANGKASA), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2Dept of Electrical, Electronic and ... of an antenna is its radiation pattern Radiation pattern can easily indicate an application for which an antenna will be used For example, fixed indoor RFID reader applications, such as a ware-house, ... between (a) reader and passive tag, (b) reader and active tag, (c) reader and semi-passive tag (Khan et al 2009) 90 b c Current Trends andChallengesin RFID Active tags - These tags are full-featured...
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... ECAs as a candidate for the RFID tag antenna applications ECAs exhibit many advantages such as printability and low-temperature processability as compared to the conventional antenna preparation ... consistency for each variable are Individual Control Chart (I Chart), Moving Range Charts (MR Chart), and Capability Analysis Interpretation of the relative PCR (Cp or Pp) In capability analysis, overall ... study was a true experimental research in nature and aimed to investigate the process consistency and capability of printing RFID tag antennas via the screening printing process Screening printing...
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... divider, and hence equals k2 times the parallel combination ZP of LA and (LA/LT)ZT All transformations so far were equivalent transformations and no approximation was made The low coupling approximation ... discontinuous input such as a square wave In 234 Current Trends andChallengesin RFID the latter case we shall assume that Y is integrable on each finite interval, that X is continuous and almost ... the hash-table to match a value, realizing constant-time tag identification Compared to the tree-based protocols, hash-table based protocols need smaller storage on a tag and maintain a constant...