Design and Manufacturing of Small Area On-Chip-Antenna (OCA) for RFID Tags

Author

Guo, L.H. ; Yeoh, W.G. ; Choi, Y.B. ; Chen, X.S. ; Li, H.Y. ; Tang, M. ; Lo, G.Q. ; Balasubramanian, N. ; Kwong, D.L.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron., Singapore

fYear

2006

fDate

19-21 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

198

Lastpage

201

Abstract

In this paper, OCA has been discussed in detail in design methodologies under various scenario, fabrication development and finally the experimental characterization results. This paper emphasizes exploring the co-design of OCA with reader´s antenna, tag´s circuit and the fabrication technology. The matching-area on the Smith Chart has been proposed to predict and guide the matching network design for OCA. As an example, OCA has been successfully demonstrated on a 2.45 GHz RFID tag chip with area of 1times 0.5 mm²

Keywords

antennas; radiofrequency identification; radiofrequency integrated circuits; 0.5 mm; 1 mm; 2.45 GHz; RFID tags; Smith Chart matching; antenna co-design; fabrication development; matching network design guide; on-chip-antenna; reader antenna; tag circuit; Backscatter; CMOS technology; Circuits; Coils; Fabrication; Manufacturing; Microwave communication; RFID tags; Radiofrequency identification; Semiconductor device modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Device Research Conference, 2006. ESSDERC 2006. Proceeding of the 36th European

Conference_Location

Montreux

ISSN

1930-8876

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0301-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESSDER.2006.307672

Filename

4099890