Abstract
An electrically small spherical UHF (911.25 MHz) radio frequency identification (RFID) tag antenna is proposed. A dipole-typed RFID tag antenna is wound into a spherical shape to achieve small size and quasi-isotropic pattern. The overall diameter of the antenna is 25 mm (0.076¿), and the resulting electrical size is a kr of 0.24. A short stub is employed for good conjugate impedance matching with a RFID chip (Z chip = 14 - j145 ¿). The designed antenna has a -10-dB bandwidth of 7 MHz (0.77%) and the maximum readable distance of 132 cm at 5.2 W EIRP.
Original language | American English |
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Journal | IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters |
Volume | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 17 2010 |
Disciplines
- Engineering
- Computer Engineering
Keywords
- Electrically small antennas
- quasi-isotropic patterns
- radio frequency identification (RFID) tag antennas