Affiliate Associate Professor
Principal Engineer
Intermec Technologies
6001 36th Ave W
Everett, WA 98203
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Pavel Nikitin Affiliate Associate Professor Principal Engineer Intermec Technologies 6001 36th Ave W Everett, WA 98203 Personal home page |
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Carnegie Mellon University PhD 2002
Utah State University MS 1998
Novosibirsk State University BS 1995
UW MSCAD Lab: http://www.ee.washington.edu/research/mscad
Intermec RFID: http://www.intermec.com/rfid
P. V. Nikitin, S. Ramamurthy, R. Martinez, and K. V. S. Rao, Passive Tag-to-Tag Communication, to appear at IEEE RFID Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2012
P. V. Nikitin and K. V. S. Rao, Gain Measurement of Antennas using RFID, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium, Spokane, WA, July 2011
P. V. Nikitin, K. V. S. Rao, and S. Lam, RFID Paperclip Tags, IEEE RFID Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2011
K. V. S. Rao, S. Lam, and P. V. Nikitin, UHF RFID Tag for Metal Containers, IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, Yokohama, Japan, December 2010
P. V. Nikitin, D. D. Arumugam, M. Chabalko, B. E. Henty, and D. D. Stancil, Long Range Passive UHF RFID System using HVAC Ducts, Proceedings of the IEEE (special issue "RFID - A Unique Radio Innovation for the 21st Century"), vol. 98, no. 9, pp. 1629-1635, September 2010
P. V. Nikitin and K. V. S. Rao, Compact Yagi Antenna for Handheld UHF RFID Reader, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium, Toronto, ON, July 2010
P. V. Nikitin, R. Martinez, S. Ramamurthy, H. Leland, G. Spiess, and K. V. S. Rao, Phase Based Spatial Identification of UHF RFID Tags, IEEE RFID Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2010 (IEEE RFID 2010 Best Paper Award)
P. V. Nikitin, K. V. S. Rao, Helical Antenna for Handheld UHF RFID Reader, IEEE RFID Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2010
P. V. Nikitin and K. V. S. Rao, LabVIEW-based UHF RFID tag test and measurement system, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 56, no. 7, pp. 2374-2381, July 2009
P. V. Nikitin and K. V. S. Rao, Harmonic Scattering from Passive UHF RFID Tags, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium, Charleston, SC, June 2009
P. V. Nikitin, K. V. S. Rao, R. Martinez, and S. Lam, Sensitivity and impedance measurements of UHF RFID chips, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 57, no. 5, pp. 1297-1302, May 2009
P. V. Nikitin and K. V. S. Rao, Effect of Gen2 protocol parameters on RFID tag performance, IEEE RFID Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2009
K. V. S. Rao, S. F. Lam, and P. V. Nikitin, Wideband metal mount UHF RFID tag, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium, San Diego, CA, July, 2008
P. V. Nikitin and K. V. S. Rao, Antennas and propagation in UHF RFID systems, IEEE RFID conference, Las Vegas, NV, April 2008
P. V. Nikitin and K. V. S. Rao, Using National
Instruments software and hardware to develop and test RFID tags,
National Instruments Case Study, January 2008
V. Pillai, H. Heinrich, D. Dieska, P. V. Nikitin, R. Martinez, and K. V. S. Rao, An ultra-low-power long range battery/passive RFID tag for UHF and microwave bands with a current consumption of 700 nA at 1.5 V, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 1500-1512, July 2007
P. V. Nikitin and K. V. S. Rao, Performance of RFID tags with multiple RF ports, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium, Honolulu, HI, June 2007
P. V. Nikitin, K. V. S. Rao, and R. Martinez, Differential RCS of RFID tag, Electronics Letters, vol. 43, no. 8, pp. 431-432, April 2007
P. V. Nikitin, K. V. S. Rao, and S. Lazar, An overview of near field UHF RFID, IEEE RFID 2007 conference, Grapevine, TX, March 2007
P. V. Nikitin and K. V. S. Rao, Theory and measurement of backscattering from RFID tags, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 212-218, December 2006
P. V. Nikitin and K. V. S. Rao, Performance limitations of passive UHF RFID systems, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, July 2006
K. V. S. Rao, P. V. Nikitin and S. Lam, Antenna design for UHF RFID tags: a review and a practical application, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 3870-3876, December 2005 (IEEE Top 100 Articles List: December 2005 - November 2006, most cited artcile on RFID according to IEEEXplore ( link)
P. V. Nikitin and K. V. S. Rao, Measurement of backscattering from RFID tags, Proceedings of Antennas Measurement Techniques Association Symposium, Newport, RI, October 2005
K. V. S. Rao, P. V. Nikitin and S. Lam, Impedance matching concepts in RFID transponder design, IEEE Conference on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies, Buffalo, NY, October 2005
P. V. Nikitin, K. V. S. Rao, S. Lam, V. Pillai, R. Martinez, and H. Heinrich, Power reflection coefficient analysis for complex impedances in RFID tag design, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 53, no. 9, pp. 2721-2725, September 2005
P. V. Nikitin, S. Lam, and K. V. S. Rao, Low cost silver ink RFID tag antennas, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium, Washington, DC, July 2005
P. V. Nikitin, D. D. Stancil and E. A. Erosheva, Estimating the Number of Modes in Multimode Waveguide Propagation Environment, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium, Spokane, WA, July 2011
P. V. Nikitin and D. D. Stancil, Antenna radiation resistance in waveguide and in free-space, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 53, no.6, pp. 2126-2128, June 2005
P. V. Nikitin, D. D. Stancil, A. G. Cepni, A. E. Xhafa, O. K. Tonguz, and D. Brodtkorb, Novel mode content analysis technique for antennas in multimode waveguides, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 51, no. 12, pp. 2402-2408, December 2003
P. Nikitin and C. Swenson, Impedance of a short dipole antenna in a cold plasma, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 49, no.10, pp. 1377-1381, 2001
P. V. Nikitin and C.-J. R. Shi, VHDL-AMS based modeling and
simulation of mixed-technology microsystems: a tutorial,
Integration, the VLSI Journal, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 261 - 273, April
2007
(VLSI Journal Top 25 Articles List: January 2007 - December 2009)
E. Normark, L. Yang, C. Wakayama, P.V. Nikitin, C.-J. R. Shi, VHDL-AMS modeling and simulation of a pi/4 DQPSK transceiver system, IEEE Behavioral Modeling and Simulation Conference, San Jose, CA, October 2004
P. V. Nikitin, E. Normark, C. Wakayama, C.-J. R. Shi, VHDL-AMS modeling and simulation of BPSK transceiver system, IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems for Communications, Moscow, Russia, June 2004
P. V. Nikitin, D. D. Stancil, O. K. Tonguz, A. E. Xhafa, A. G. Cepni, and D. Brodtkorb, Impulse response of the HVAC duct as a communication channel, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 51, no. 10, pp.1736-1742, October 2003
P. V. Nikitin, D. D. Stancil, A. G. Cepni, O. K. Tonguz, A. E. Xhafa, and D. Brodtkorb, Propagation model for the HVAC duct as a communication channel, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 945-951, May 2003
P. V. Nikitin, O. Celebioglu, and V. Kukrer, TCP performance in mobile wireless environment: channel modeling and network simulation, 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, FL, July 2002
R. J. Punnoose, P. V. Nikitin, and D. D. Stancil, Efficient simulation of Ricean fading within a packet simulator, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Boston, MA, September 2000
R. J. Punnoose, P. V. Nikitin, J. Broch, and D. D. Stancil, Optimizing wireless network protocols using real-time predictive propagation modeling, IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference, Denver, CO, August 1999
P. V. Nikitin, J. R. Smith, RFID-vox: WISP Accelerometers as Musical Input Devices, book chapter in Wirelessly Powered Sensor Networks and Computational RFID, Springer, 2012
P. V. Nikitin, K. V. S. Rao, S. Lam, RFID tags with enhanced range and bandwidth obtained by spatial antenna diversity, US patent 8,077,044, December 2011
P. V. Nikitin, K. V. S. Rao, R. Martinez, H. Heinrich, Method and apparatus for RFID tag detection and characterization, US patent 7,978,074, July 2011
P. V. Nikitin, K. V. S. Rao, S. Lam, Configurable RFID tag with protocol and band selection, US patent 7,952,464, May 2011
P. V. Nikitin, K. V. S. Rao, S. Lam, A. Reynolds, R. Martinez, Automatic data collection device, method, and article, US patent 7,893,813, February 2011
P. V. Nikitin, K. V. S. Rao, S. Acklety, S. Lam, Near-field and far-field antenna-assembly and devices having same, US patent 7,843,347, November 2010
P. V. Nikitin, K. V. S. Rao, S. Lam, Systems and methods for wirelessly marking media, US patent 7,724,142, May 2010
K. V. S. Rao, P. V. Nikitin, S. Lam, Tunable RFID tag for global applications, US patent 7,323,977, January 2008
P. V. Nikitin, Analysis of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning ducts as a radio frequency communication channel, Carnegie Mellon University, August 2002