Low profile UHF RFID antenna design with EBG structures

Author

Reynolds, Nathan ; Eroglu, Abdullah ; Pomalaza-Ráez, Carlos

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng., Indiana Univ., Fort Wayne, IN, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

8-14 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A low profile UHF RFID antenna is designed using Electromagnetic Bang Gap (EBG) structures with high permittivity materials. The effect of dielectric permittivity constant, dielectric thickness, feed location, feed types such as probe-fed and inset-fed on antenna gain, bandwidth, and return loss when matching to the feed point has been done using transmission line and cavity models which have been studied extensively with 3D electromagnetic simulator, HFSS. The optimum microstrip patch antenna design method to have an increased reading distance with low profile is presented in detail. The results have been compared with existing results and improvement has been demonstrated.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna feeds; microstrip antennas; permittivity; photonic band gap; radiofrequency identification; transmission lines; 3D electromagnetic simulator; EBG structures; HFSS; antenna gain; cavity models; dielectric permittivity constant effect; dielectric thickness; electromagnetic bandgap structures; feed location; feed point matching; high permittivity materials; inset-fed; low profile UHF RFID antenna design; optimum microstrip patch antenna design method; probe-fed; return loss; transmission line; Bandwidth; Metamaterials; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas; Periodic structures; Radiofrequency identification; Resonant frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0461-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2012.6349344

Filename

6349344