• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.963-964
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• 2008

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.25 no.11
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• pp.90-94
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• 2008

Recently, a great deal of research is focused on the printed electronics. One of their mainly concerned products is printed RFID tag. RFID technology has attracted researchers and enterprises as a promising method for automatic identification, and they are expected to replace conventional bar codes in inventory tracking and management. The key to successful RFID technology lies in developing low-cost RFID tags and the first step in applying printing technology to RFID systems is to replace antennas that are conventionally produced by etching copper or aluminum. However, due to the printing quality variations, errors, and lower conductivity, the performance of the printed RFID antennas is lower than that of antennas manufactured by conventional etching methods. In this paper, the effect of variations in the printing conditions on the antenna performance is investigated. Three levels for each condition parameter is assumed and effect on the resonant frequency are examined experimentally based on orthogonal array. The most serious factor that affects the resonant frequency of the antenna is the non-uniformity of the edge and the resonant frequency is found to be lower as the non-uniformity increases.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2006.07a
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• pp.695-695
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• 2006

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.12-16
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• 2007

A UHF band wireless identification system based on passive surface acoustic wave(SAW) devices is presented in this paper. SAW ID tags were fabricated on Y-Z $LiNbO_3$ piezoelectric substrate with a good electro-mechanical coupling property. To reduce degradation of the antenna performance associated with the piezoelectric materials, an efficient design of the SAW RFID antenna is introduced. By measuring the parameters of the SAW ID tag, the performance of the antenna was tested by experimentation.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.6 s.121
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• pp.591-601
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• 2007

In this paper, the miniaturized radio frequency identification(RFID) tag antennas used in UHF band$(908.5{\sim}914MHz)$ are designed and fabricated by using the circular loop antenna(CLA). Miniaturization of CLA was possible to transform the structure of circular loop into the structure of meander line. In the case of double meander line CLA is reduced up to 83% compared with the general type CLA. The $S_{11}$, -10 dB bandwidth, and gain of double meander line CLA were -11.9 dB, 12 MHz(1.3%), and -1.18 dBd. Also, a small half-wavelength CLA using double meander line is designed and fabricated for flat snack bag coated aluminum. The antenna is reduced up to 92.1% except ground. It shows the $S_{11}$ of -16.5 dB, -10 dB bandwidth of 48 MHz(5%) and gain of -0.58 dBd. The radiation pattern shows omni-directional pattern in z-y plane(x-axis pol.). Through this result, we can confirm that miniaturized type CLAs using meander lines are suitable for miniaturized RFIB tag antennas with the UHF band.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2008.04c
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• pp.18-21
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• 2008

기존의 대부분의 안테나는 한정된 공간에서 한정범위의 인식이 곤란한 단점이 있었다. 이러한 단점을 개선하고 소형화를 위하여, 간단한 형태의 다이폴안테나를 설계 하였다. Ansoft사의 Designer를 이용하여 안테나 시뮬레이션을 수행 하였으며, 산업체의 자동화 공정이나, 컨베이어상에서 제품에 부착된 전자태그의 인식효율과 소형화를 고려하여 설계하였다. 설계한 안테나는 RFID 안테나의 소형화와 한정된 공간에서 Tag 의 인식을 위해 테프론 기판을 이용한 다이폴 형태로 구현 제작하였다. 본 연구결과 설계 제작된 안테나는, 도우넛형태의 방사패턴을 가지며, 협소한 지역에 전파를 방사시켜서, 주변의 불필요한 태그의 인식을 최소로 하였고, 실제로 컨베이어 장치를 이용하여 개발 제품의 성능 테스트를 수행하였으며, 그 결과 제품의 우수성을 검증 하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.7 s.361
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• pp.9-15
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• 2007

In this paper, we present the design of Schottky diodes and voltage multiplier for UHF-band passive RFID applications. The Schottky diodes were fabricated using Titanium (Ti/Al/Ta/Al)-Silicon (n-type) junction in $0.35\;{\mu}m$ CMOS process. The Schottky diode having $4{\times}10{\times}10\;{\mu}m^{2}$ contact area showed a turn-on voltage of about 150 mV for the forward diode current of $20\;{\mu}A$. The breakdown voltage is about -9 V, which provides sufficient peak inverse voltage necessary for the voltage multiplier in the RFID tag chip. The effect of the size of Schottky diode on the turn-on voltage and the input impedance at 900 MHz was investigated using small-signal equivalent model. Also, the effect or qualify factor of the diode on the input voltage to the tag chip is examined, which indicates that high qualify factor Schottky diode is desirable to minimize loss. The fabricated voltage multiplier resulted in a output voltage of more than 1.3 V for the input RF signal of 200mV, which is suitable for long-range RFID applications.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.694-700
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• 2009

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.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.176-184
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• 2012

In this paper, the effects of a metal plane on the performance of a meandered slot RFID antenna are evaluated in a real environment, and 3 metal plane cases are considered (the most likely scenarios in which metal conductive materials are placed near the tag antenna). The metal plane effects can be categorized as matching degradation and antenna gain variation. First, matching degradation due to the antenna's induced mutual impedance is experimentally investigated. In addition, the gain variation is investigated to figure out the change in the radiation characteristics. With the derived antenna parameters, the read range is calculated with the Friis transmission equation and measured to analyze the effects of a metal plane on RFID system performance. The calculated and measured read range varies from 9.3 m to 19.1 m as the distance between the RFID antenna and the metal plane changes.