RFID systems have been sued in numerous applications like asset tracking, toll collection and libraries. The following seminar presents our on going research for the Auburn University Detection and Food Safety (AUDFS) project to use RFID technology combined with sensors for detection of pathogens in food. AUDFS aims to integrate the breakthrough in the detection of food borne illnesses with advances in wireless and biosensor technologies. The goal of the research is a system that can keep track of food products from initial production throughou ....etc

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ABSTRACT
RFID is an area of automatic identification that has quietly been gaining momentum in recent years and is now being seen as a radical means of enhancing data handling processes, complimentary in many ways to other data capture technologies such as barcoding. The object of any RFID system is to carry data in suitable transponders, generally known as tags, and to retrieve data, by machine-readable means, at a suitable time and place. Data within a tag may provide identification for an ite ....etc

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ENERGY HARVESTING FROM RADIO WAVES



INTRODUCTION

NECESSITY IS MOTHER OF INVENTION

ENERGY CRISIS NECESSITATED THE INVENTION OF ALTERNATE ENERGY SOURCES


We are being bombarded with energy waves every second of the day.

What if there was a way we could harvest the energy that is being transmitted and use it as a source of power?

If it could be possible to gather the energy and store it, we could potentially use it to power other circuit ....etc

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A Technique for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
Frequency Offset Correction

Abstract:
The Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a Multi Carrier Modulation technique employing Frequency Division Multiplexing of orthogonal subcarriers. It is also sometimes called as discrete multitone modulation (DMT). It is better than CDMA in high bit rate and Broadband Communications .It is a multi carrier technique, which is very sensitive to Frequency Offset between transmitter and receiver. Th ....etc

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WIRELESS BATTERY CHARGING SYSTEM USING RADIO FREQUENCY ENERGY HARVESTING




INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION

Cellular telephone technology became commercially available in the 1980’s. Since then, it has been like a snowball rolling downhill, ever increasing in the number of users and the speed at which the technology advances. When the cellular phone was first implemented, it was enormous in size by today’s standards. This reason is two-fold; the battery had ....etc

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ABSTRACT
After years of research and development, radio frequency light sources are just now becoming a mainstream lighting option. RF light sources follow the same principles of converting electrical power into visible radiation as conventional gas discharge lamps. The fundamental difference between RF lamps is that RF lamps operate without electrodes .
There are three practical ways to energize RF light sources, though there are more ways to create RF plasmas. These three ways correspond to differen ....etc

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Definition

RF light sources follow the same principles of converting electrical power into visible radiation as conventional gas discharge lamps. The fundamental difference between RF lamps and conventional lamps is that RF lamps operate without electrodes .the presence of electrodes in conventional florescent and High Intensity Discharge lamps has put many restrictions on lamp design and performance and is a major factor limiting lamp life.

Recent progress in semiconductor power switching electronics, which is revolutionizing many facto ....etc

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RADIO FREQUENCY LIGHT SOURCES

INTRODUCTION
¢ Converting electrical power into visible radiation
¢ No electrodes

RF PLASMA
Collection of uncharged molecules
Consists of equal number of positive and negative charges

RF LIGHTING
RF lamps appeared about 100 years ago
DISCHARGE TUBES:
Glass tube with electrodes at each end

DISCHARGE TYPES CAPACITIVE DISCHARGE:
Sheath impedance controls the discharge current of capacitive RF discharge
Power P is proportional to wVrf
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After years of research and development, radio frequency light sources are just now becoming a mainstream lighting option. RF light sources follow the same principles of converting electrical power into visible radiation as conventional gas discharge lamps. The fundamental difference between RF lamps is that RF lamps operate without electrodes .There are three practical ways to energize RF light sources, though there are more ways to create RF plasmas. These three ways correspond to different types of interaction of electroma ....etc

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presented by:
Daniel W. Harrist


Abstract

It seems these days that everyone has a cellular phone. Whether yours is for business purposes or personal use, you need an efficient way of charging the battery in the phone. But, like most people, you probably don’t like being tethered to the wall. Imagine a system where your cellular phone battery is always charged. No more worrying about forgetting to charge the battery. Sound Impossible?
It is the focus of this thesis to discuss the first step toward ....etc

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