Folded Microstrip Patch-Type Tag Antenna Mountable on Metallic Surfaces

Author

Lei, Bo ; Li, Jianxiong ; Mao, Luhong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. & Commun. Eng., Tianjin Polytech. Univ., Tianjin, China

fYear

2011

fDate

30-31 July 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A novel folded microstrip patch-type antenna design suitable for radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and mountable on the cigarette carton surfaces is presented. The cigarette carton contains conductive material and significantly affects the radiation properties of the antenna, so identifying cigarette carton is a challenge. For low-cost fabrication, the antenna is printed on a 45um-thick FCCL substrate with a meander microstrip feed. The specific parameters of the antenna were optimized using the Finite Element Method (FEM). The proposed antenna provided a fairly broad bandwidth ( <; -10 dB, 31.6%) for conjugate-matching with a commercial tag chip.

Keywords

antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; finite element analysis; microstrip antennas; radiofrequency identification; FCCL substrate; FEM; RFID tags; antenna radiation properties; cigarette carton surfaces; conductive material; finite element method; folded microstrip patch-type tag antenna design; low-cost fabrication; meander microstrip feed; metallic surfaces; radiofrequency identification tags; size 45 mum; Impedance; Materials; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Radiofrequency identification; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control, Automation and Systems Engineering (CASE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0859-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCASE.2011.5997588

Filename

5997588