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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2009.20.8.694

Design of a Broadband Printing RFID Tag Antenna with Low Performance Degradation Due to Nearby Dielectric Material  

Ji, Sung-Hwan (School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Hongik University)
Han, Won-Keun (Department of Physics, Hongik University)
Park, Ik-Mo (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ajou University)
Choo, Ho-Sung (School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Hongik University)
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Abstract
In this paper, we propose a RFID tag antenna with low performance degradation due to nearby dielectric materials. The proposed antenna is designed to be appropriate for ink printing fabrication. The antenna is designed to operate in UHF band of $860{\sim}960$ MHz. The antenna uses a T-matching network in the middle of the main body and two parasitic patches in vicinity for complex conjugate matching with a commercial tag chip. In addition, the two parasitic patches induce currents at different dielectric constants of nearby dielectric materials. This can minimize the performance degradation due to nearby dielectric materials. The measured results show the half power matching bandwidth from 844 MHT to 1,268 MHz. It exhibits the reading distance of about 3.5 m in free space when the tag antenna is used with the commercial reader antenna (transmitting power of 20 dBm and the reader antenna gain of 6 dBi). When the tag is attached on dielectric materials of wood and FR4, the resulting reading distances are 2.61 m and 2.51 m, respectively.
Keywords
RFID Tag Antenna; INK Printing Tag; Capacitive Loading; Broadband;
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