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Near-Isotropic Tag Antenna in UHF band Using Inductively Coupled Feeding  

Ahn, Jun-Oh (Department of Radio Engineering, Kyunghee University)
Jang, Hyung-Min (Department of Radio Engineering, Kyunghee University)
Moon, Hyo-Sang (Department of Radio Engineering, Kyunghee University)
Lee, Bom-Son (Department of Radio Engineering, Kyunghee University)
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Abstract
This paper presents an UHF band(911 MHz) RFID tag antenna which has near-isotropic radiation pattern and easy conjugate impedance matching characteristics to any commercial chips of usual practice through the application of an inductively-coupled feeding. The proposed antenna of compact size $40{\times}46mm\;(0.12{\times}0.14{\lambda})$ has, at normal incidence, the maximum RCS of $-18.5dBm^2$ and the 3 dB RCS bandwidth of 9 MHz(1 %) in case of short chip load. It has the maximum and minimum RCS' of $-16.9dBm^2\;and\;-21.4dBm^2$ depending on the incident angles. The difference of about 4.5 dB is relatively small compared with that (about 70 dB) of a pure dipole antenna. The designed antenna has been fabricated and its RCS' have been measured varying the angles of incidence. The measured RCS' have been found to have good agreement with the simulated ones.
Keywords
RFID; Tag; RCS; Antenna; Near-isotropic;
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