• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.823-828
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• 2009

A small UHF RFID tag antenna for a key-chain installed inside of a metallic key-management cabinet has been designed. The tag antenna has been designed as small size as $66\;mm{\times}6\;mm$ with consideration of coupling among the tag antennas and metallic parts of key-chain and cabinet. The tag antenna is fabricated with a meander line dipole using T-matching method with FR-4 substrate. One tag antenna has been designed with consideration of coupling of adjacent tag antennas, and the other has been designed for the location close to the metallic part in the cabinet. The characteristics of tag antennas and reading distance have been analyzed based on the different numbers of adjacent tag antennas. As a results, the 360 tag antennas installed in the cabinet have been successfully recognized.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.192-194
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 금속체에 RFID 태그 안테나를 부착 시 태그 인식이 가능하도록 태그 안테나를 설계 및 제작하였다. 기존 도체 태그용 RFID 안테나는 크기가 큰 단점이 있으나, 본 논문에서는 미앤더 구조를 제안하여 안테나 크기의 소형화에 중점을 두었다. 2 개의 유전체를 결합하여 도체에서의 특성 감소를 최소화 하였고 급전부와 단락부의 간격조절로 사용된 칩 저항인 77-j100옴과의 conjugate 매칭을 유도 하였다. 태그의 크기는 30 ${\times}$ 40 mm로 기존의 태그안테나에 비해 소형임에도 임피던스 특성을 얻을 수 있음을 확인하였다. 대역폭은 UHF대역을 만족하는 $900MHz{\sim}921MHz$를 얻었고, 도체에 태그를 부착 후 인식거리 측정에 있어서도 기존 제품과 유사한 특성을 얻었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.1 s.116
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• pp.31-36
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• 2007

In the RFID system, one of the important criteria of tag antenna performance is the detection distance. The most important factor determining the detection distance of the tag antenna is the Radar Cross Sections(RCS). In this paper, we propose a method to simply measure the RCS of the RFID tag antenna using two reader antennas(Tx and Rx) and a network analyzer. We estimate RCS' from the RCS equation based on the measured $S_{21}$ using the network analyzer. We compare the measured $S_{21}$ values with the calculated $S_{21}$ values and the simulated $S_{21}$ values using EM simulator. The used tag antennas are two kinds of dipole-type, metal-type, and an inductively-coupled type ones. In case of the dipole type, the measured, simulated and calculated values of the RCS are almost the same. In case of other types, we obtain the measured RCS values with a difference of about 3 dB.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.1673-1677
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• 2008

This paper studies on the read rate of UHF-band RFID tag. An RFID tag antenna attached on the high permittivity surface will be detuned that results in deteriorating the read rate. In this study, we investigate that the electrical performance for the tag antenna is detuned due to the ceramic material and the read rate is radically improved after tuning the antenna.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.11
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• pp.1211-1216
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• 2007

Yagi-Uda UHF RFID(Radio Frequency Identification) tag antennas with long reading range have been designed. According to ISO-18000, EIRP(Effective Isotropic Radiation Power) of reader and reader antenna is limited as 36 dBm. Therefore, the gain of a tag antenna should be high enough to extend the reading range. Yagi-Uda antenna has been applied to a UHF RFID tag antenna, and high gain and long reading range have been achieved. Three different of Yagi-Uda UHF antennas have been optimized to achieve the small size with low back-lobe patterns. The sizes, reading ranges and return loss of Yagi-Uda tag antennas are compared and measured.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.139-142
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• 2007

본 논문은 RFID(Radio frequency identification) 수동 태그 안테나의 설계 시 고려 할 사항에 대한 연구이다. 일반적으로 RFID 태그 안테나는 몇 가지의 기본적인 사용 용도에 따라 안테나가 최적화 되어있다. 최근에는 그 용도가 다양화 되고 특수한 용도로 사용되는 경우가 빈번하나 이에 대한 기본적인 연구가 미비하였다. 본 연구에서는 상용화 된 태그 안테나를 사용하여 도자기 표면에서의 안테나 특성 변화를 살펴보았고 이를 통해 좀 더 다양한 태그 안테나의 설계와 튜닝 방법에 대해 논의 하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.1943-1949
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• 2010

In this paper, we developed a RFID tag antenna using one-sheet inlay pattern which consist of two different frequencies in one layer. The antenna in one-sheet inlay RFID tag does not use different kind RFID antennas in a card but implement 13.56MHz and 900MHz RFID tag antennas in one sheet. In order to evaluate the usability of proposed method, we configured test equipments and designed 6 different patterns and test the recognition distance of each pattern. Among the one-sheet inlay RFID tag antenna designs, the pattern no.5 has good performance with recognition distance of 5.34m at 900MHz and 3.5m at 13.56MHz.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.5 no.1 s.9
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• pp.65-70
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• 2006

A UHF band RFID passive tag antenna, which can be attached on metallic objects, is proposed. The proposed tag antenna is more insensitive to the size of the metallic object than conventional PIFAs or IFAs. It is constructed on a multi-layer and its size is reduced by using a 'L' slit. Performances of the antenna is analyzed by Ansoft's HFSS and measured using a back-scattering method. The simulated and measured data are obtained with varying the size of metallic object.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.199-202
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• 2007

In this paper, we examined the operating principle of a passive tag antenna for RFID system in UHF band. Based on the study, we proposed a novel RFID tag antenna which adopts the inductively coupled feeding structure to match antenna impedance to a capacitively loaded commercial tag chip. The proposed tag antenna consists of microstrip lines on a thin PET substrate for low-cost fabrication. The detail structure of the tag antenna were optimized using a full electromagnetic wave simulator of IE3D in conjunction with a Pareto genetic algorithm, and the size of the tag antenna can be reduced up to kr=0.27(2 cm2). We built some sample antennas and measured the antenna characteristics such as a return loss, an efficiency, and radiation patterns. The readable range of the tag antenna with a commercial RFID system showed about 1 to 3 m.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.32 no.10
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• pp.793-798
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• 2008

This paper presents a design of RFID(Radio Frequency Identification} tag antenna which has high sensitivity for car side mirror. A proposed tag antenna ($154\;mm{\times}66\;mm{\times}1;mm$) resonants at 900 MHz and has a wide bandwidth of 690 MHz($490\;MHz{\sim}1180\;MHz$). The measured gain and readable range of tag antenna are 5.8 dBd and 10 m, respectively. Radiation pattern and readable range of proposed tag antenna located on inside of a side mirror including a car body are measured at anechoic chamber. It has been confirmed that the readable range in the vicinity of $90^{\circ}$ has been expanded about 1.5 m by comparison with one of proposed tag antenna without of car body. Good performance of the proposed tag antenna was observed and proved by comparison of measured results of commercial tag antenna.