[HTML][HTML] Backscatter communications: Inception of the battery-free era—A comprehensive survey

ML Memon, N Saxena, A Roy, DR Shin - Electronics, 2019 - mdpi.com
The ever increasing proliferation of wireless objects and consistent connectivity demands
are creating significant challenges for battery-constrained wireless devices. The vision of …

Tunneling RFID tags for long-range and low-power microwave applications

F Amato, CW Peterson, BP Degnan… - IEEE Journal of Radio …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Backscatter modulation in radio frequency identification (RFID) tags will potentially connect
billions of tomorrow's devices to the Internet-of-Things. Current passive RFID systems have …

Ambient backscatter communications to energize IoT devices

ML Memon, N Saxena, A Roy, S Singh… - IETE Technical …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The expected rise of small devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) require these devices to
operate without any power interruption. The replacement and recharging of batteries in …

Harmonic reflection amplifier for widespread backscatter internet-of-things

K Gumber, C Dejous, S Hemour - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The highly power-efficient backscattering communication scheme holds solid potentials to
lead the Internet of Things technologies. However, the asymmetric radio frontend …

Long range and low powered RFID tags with tunnel diode

F Amato, CW Peterson, MB Akbar… - 2015 IEEE International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a 5.8 GHz RFID tag equipped with a high gain, low power reflection
amplifier based on a tunnel diode. Experimental results show that the realized prototype …

Towards Programmable Backscatter Radio Design for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

X Guo, Y He, J Zhang, Y Liu… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents RF-Transformer, a unified backscatter radio hardware abstraction that
allows a low-power IoT device to directly communicate with heterogeneous wireless …

Challenges in design of power-amplifying active metasurfaces

J Lončar, Z Šipuš - 2020 International Symposium ELMAR, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The basic methodology in designing a transmissive or reflective power-amplifying
metasurface is explained. Ensuring stability is recognized as the greatest challenge in the …

ReflectFX: In-band full-duplex wireless communication by means of reflected power

B Smida, S Khaledian - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we introduce a new full-duplex wireless communication system, named
ReflectFX, that relies on backscatter modulation. This paper offers a new concept for two …

A full-duplex bidirectional amplifier with low DC power consumption using tunnel diodes

S Khaledian, F Farzami, D Erricolo… - IEEE Microwave and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A low-power, switchless, full-duplex bidirectional amplifier operating in the 915 MHz
(industrial, scientific and medical band) is proposed. It is composed of two identical reflection …

A reflection-amplifier-based long-range semi-passive UHF RFID tag with standard compatibility

G Li, M Chen, F Zhao, Z Li, D Inserra… - IEEE Microwave and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) tag structure which
includes both received signal demodulation and reflected signal amplification abilities for …