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Carr mcgrawhill new york chicago san francisco lisbon london. The currents are so close that we can treat them as a single 2 length of wire. The efficiency of the voltage transfer can be increased significantly with high q circuits. The proposed sshaped monopole antenna s design model is illustrated in figure 1. How to design an antenna for dynamic nfc tags introduction the dynamic nfc near field communication tag devices manufactured by st feature an eeprom that can be accessed either through a lowpower i2c interface or an rf contactless interface operating at.
This is the architectural design document of the lofar low band antenna lba subsystem. For best user experience we recommend to use an updated version of. In this paper, a small antenna for a passive radio frequency identification rfid transponder operating in the ultrahigh frequency uhf band is introduced. In section 3, initial design methodology of the antenna in free space is introduced. Information contained in this publication regarding device applications and the like is provi ded only for your convenience. Professor, department of ece, k l university 2student, b.
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