Wearable Metasurface-Enabled Quasi-Yagi Antenna for UHF RFID Reader With End-Fire Radiation Along the Forearm | Zendy

Shahbaz Ahmed | Zendy; Duc Le | Zendy; Lauri Sydanheimo | Zendy; Leena Ukkonen | Zendy; Toni Bjorninen | Zendy

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Wearable Metasurface-Enabled Quasi-Yagi Antenna for UHF RFID Reader With End-Fire Radiation Along the Forearm

Author(s) -

Shahbaz Ahmed,

Duc Le,

Lauri Sydanheimo,

Leena Ukkonen,

Toni Bjorninen

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

ieee access

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587

H-Index - 127

ISSN - 2169-3536

DOI - 10.1109/access.2021.3078239

Subject(s) - aerospace , bioengineering , communication, networking and broadcast technologies , components, circuits, devices and systems , computing and processing , engineered materials, dielectrics and plasmas , engineering profession , fields, waves and electromagnetics , general topics for engineers , geoscience , nuclear engineering , photonics and electrooptics , power, energy and industry applications , robotics and control systems , signal processing and analysis , transportation

We present a quasi-Yagi antenna mounted on a periodic surface for a wearable UHF RFID reader operating in the UHF RFID frequency band centered at 915 MHz. The periodic surface was co-optimized with the antenna to enhance the launching of surface waves to enable the end-fire radiation along the forearm so that a user can identify objects by pointing her/his hand towards them. In addition to the radiation pattern modification, the ground plane of the periodic surface serves the second purpose of isolating the antenna from the human body. We optimized the antenna in a full-wave EM simulator using a simplified cylindrical model of the forearm and in the simulation, it achieved the end-fire directivity of 5.9 dBi along the forearm. In the wireless testing, the quasi-Yagi antenna provided the read range of 3.8 m for a typical UHF RFID tag having 0 dBi gain when the reader's output power was 32 dBm that corresponds with EIRP =0.56 W and SAR =0.191 W/kg in our simulations. Considering both, the RFID emission regulations with EIRP = 3.28 W or 4 W and the SAR limit of 1.6 W/kg averaged over 1 gram of tissue, the read range could be further enhanced for reader units with higher output power.

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