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A Novel Carrier Leakage Suppression Scheme for UHF RFID Reader

UHF 대역 RFID 리더 반송파 누설 억압 연구

  • Jung, Jae-Young (ILT-RFID Research Team, ETRI) ;
  • Park, Chan-Won (Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Yeom, Kyung-Whan (Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University)
  • 정재영 (한국전자통신연구원 ILT-RFID기술연구팀) ;
  • 박찬원 (충남대학교 전파공학과) ;
  • 염경환 (충남대학교 전파공학과)
  • Accepted : 2011.03.31
  • Published : 2011.04.30

Abstract

RFID technologies, which allow collecting, storing, processing, and tracking information by wirelessly recognizing the inherent ID of object through an attached electronic tag, have a variety of application areas. This paper presents a novel carrier leakage suppression RF(CLS-RF) front-end for ultra-high-frequency RF identification reader. The proposed reader CLS-RF front-end structure generates the carrier leakage replica through the nonlinear path that contains limiter. The limiting function only preserves the frequency and phase information of the leakage signal and rejects the amplitude modulated tag signal in the envelope. The carrier leakage replica is then injected into the linear path that contains phase shifter. Therefore, the carrier leakage signal is effectively cancelled out, while not affecting the gain of the desired tag backscattering signal. We experimentally confirm that the prototype shows a significant improvement in the leakage to signal ratio by up to 36 dB in 910 MHz, which is consistent with our simulation results.

RFID 기술은 각 사물에 전자 태그를 부착하고, 사물의 고유 ID를 무선으로 인식하여 해당 정보를 수집, 저장, 가공, 추적하는 기술로 다양한 분야에 적용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 UHF 대역 RFID 리더 수신기에서 반송파 누설 신호를 억압하기 위한 새로운 방법을 제안하였다. 제안한 반송파 누설 전력 억압용-RF 전단부 구조를 갖는 리더는 리미터를 포함하는 비선형 경로를 통해 송신 반송파 누설 복제 신호를 생성한다. 리미팅 기능은 반송파 누설 신호의 주파수와 위상 정보는 유지하면서 태그의 진폭 변조 성분을 제거한다. 위상 천이기를 포함하는 선형 구간에 송신 반송파 누설 복제 신호를 주입함으로써 태그의 역산란 신호 손실 없이 리더 반송파 누설 신호를 효과적으로 억압할 수 있다. 제작된 반송파 누설 전력 억압 회로는 910 MHz 중심 주파수에서 반송파 누설 신호 대비 태그 신호 비가 36 dB 억압 효과를 달성하였음을 측정 결과를 통해 확인하였으며, 이는 시뮬레이션 결과와 일치한다.

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