Radio Frequency Identification Engineering

Alírio Soares Boaventura is a senior research scientist at Maybell Quantum Industries in Denver, Colorado, and worked previously as a research scientist for over five years at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado. He is the recipient of an IEEE MTT-S graduate fellowship award, co-recipient of the 2011 URSI-Portugal/ANACOM Prize, and was featured in the publication University of Aveiro, 40 Years, 40 Inventors, 40 Entrepreneurs. Nuno Borges Carvalho is currently a full professor and a senior research scientist with the Institute of Telecommunications, University of Aveiro, and an IEEE Fellow. He coauthored Intermodulation Distortion in Microwave and Wireless Circuits (Artech House, 2003), Microwave and Wireless Measurement Techniques (Cambridge University Press, 2013), White Space Communication Technologies (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and Wireless Power Transmission for Sustainable Electronics (2020). He is a distinguished lecturer for the RFID Council and was the 2023 President of the IEEE-MTT Society.

• Foreword Smail Tedjini; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. An introduction to radio frequency identification; 3. Backscatter communications: fundamentals and recent advances; 4. An overview of the ISO 18000-63 standard; 5. Digital signal processing for RFID applications; 6. A simple low-cost RFID reader implementation; 7. A software-defined RFID reader design; 8. Self-jamming in backscatter radio systems; 9. Wake-up radios for IoT applications; 10. Unconventional wireless power transmission; 11. A battery-less backscatter remote control system; Appendix A – Alternative battery-less controller configurations.