An Electrically Small Spherical UHF RFID Tag Antenna With Quasi-Isotropic Patterns for Wireless Sensor Networks

Hong Kyun Ryu, Gichul Jung, Dea Keun Ju, Sungkyun Lim, Jong Myung Woo

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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 languageAmerican English
JournalIEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Volume9
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 17 2010

Disciplines

  • Engineering
  • Computer Engineering

Keywords

  • Electrically small antennas
  • quasi-isotropic patterns
  • radio frequency identification (RFID) tag antennas

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