IEEE RFID 2020 Best Paper Recipient Named

Conference Awards and Finalists:

Best Paper Award: “Particle Filter-Based SAR Approach and Trajectory Optimization for Real-Time 3D UHF-RFID Tag Localization”, M. Gareis and P. Fenske (Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany), C. Carlowitz (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), M. Vossiek (LHFT, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany).

Best Paper Award Finalists:

“5 mm Range 61 GHz System on Chip EPC Gen2 RFID Tag in 22nm
FD-SOI Technology”, A. Harutyunyan, M. Landwehr, R. Fiedler, A. Heinig, R. Hildebrandt, H. Holland (Fraunhofer Institute IPMS, Germany).

“Particle Filter-Based SAR Approach and Trajectory Optimization for
Real-Time 3D UHF-RFID Tag Localization”, M. Gareis and P. Fenske (Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany), C. Carlowitz (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), M. Vossiek (LHFT, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany).

“Backscatter Ex-Nihilo: Single-component, Fully-passive Backscattering
for Microcontrollers”, S. Thomas (Bucknell University, USA);, B. Degnan (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), C. Callupe and B. Culver (White River Technologies, USA).

Mega Challenge Finalists: Washington University in St. Louis; R & N Systems Design; Florida Institute of Technology

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