Time Domain Measurements of Signals Backscattered by Wideband RFID Tags

Passive wideband RFID is increasing interest for its capability of providing high-accuracy tag localization in addition to identification and tag-reader communication. The measurement of backscattering capabilities of wideband antennas is usually conducted in the frequency domain by using network analyzers, which does not allow for the extraction of the antenna mode component of the backscattered signal when the antenna load is time variant. To overcome this issue, in this paper we present a novel setup for time domain measurements of signals backscattered by wideband RFID tags. Experimental evaluations are presented for comparing different wideband antennas and show the effects of the setup characteristics and of the processing schemes on the achievable measurement results.

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