Electrical Engineering

UWEE Faculty

Pavel Nikitin


Pavel Nikitin
Affiliate Assistant Professor

Lead Engineer
Intermec Technologies
6001 36th Ave W
Everett, WA 98203

Personal home page
E-mail: pavel.nikitin@intermec.com

Carnegie Mellon University PhD 2002
Utah State University MS 1998
Novosibirsk State University BS 1995


[Research Interests] [Selected Publications] [Patents]


Research Interests

RFID, antennas, communication systems

UW MSCAD Lab: http://www.ee.washington.edu/research/mscad
Intermec RFID: http://www.intermec.com/rfid

Selected Publications

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RFID

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, June, 2008

P. V. Nikitin and K. V. S. Rao, Antennas and Propagation in UHF RFID Systems, IEEE RFID 2008 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)

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

Antennas

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

Communication systems

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 - June 2008)

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

Patents

K. V. S. Rao, P. V. Nikitin, S. Lam, Tunable RFID tag for global applications, US patent 7,323,977, January 2008