Design of compact and reusable platform-tolerant RFID tag antenna using a novel feed method

Author

Yang, Peng H. ; Huang, Joshua Zhexue ; Chew, W.C. ; Ye, T.T.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

fYear

2009

fDate

7-10 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

641

Lastpage

644

Abstract

A compact and reusable platform-tolerant RFID tag antenna with a novel feed method is proposed. The radiator of this antenna consists of a pair of shorted patches, which can be seen as cavity-backed slot antenna or two PIFA antennas. A small loop pasted on paper is used to connect to RFID chip. With the loop size changing, the input impedance of the antenna can be easily adjusted to match all kinds of RFID chips. This compact tag antenna has a total size of 86 mm by 25 mm by 3 mm and 40 MHz half-power bandwidth. Prototypes have been fabricated and measured.

Keywords

antenna feeds; planar inverted-F antennas; radiofrequency identification; slot antennas; PIFA antennas; antenna radiator; cavity-backed slot antenna; feed method; frequency 40 MHz; platform-tolerant RFID tag antenna; shorted patch pair; size 25 mm; size 86 mm; Antenna feeds; Bandwidth; Costs; Dipole antennas; Impedance; Logistics; Microstrip antennas; RFID tags; Radiofrequency identification; Slot antennas; RFID tag antenna; compact; metallic object; platform-tolerant;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2009. APMC 2009. Asia Pacific

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2801-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2802-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2009.5384136

Filename

5384136