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A low‐cost compact antenna design on a paper substrate for near‐field passive UHF RFID tags
Author(s) -
Sajal Sayeed,
Braaten Benjamin D.,
Marinov Val,
Swenson Orv,
Atanasov Yuriy
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.30460
Subject(s) - ultra high frequency , miniaturization , antenna (radio) , radio frequency identification , electrical engineering , near field communication , microwave , engineering , electronic engineering , substrate (aquarium) , computer science , telecommunications , oceanography , computer security , geology
ABSTRACT A significant cost in the widespread deployment of UHF radio frequency identification (RFID) systems has been the passive RFID tags. To address some of this expense, this paper presents an antenna design for UHF RFID tags that can be printed on inexpensive paper substrates and operate in the near field of the UHF reader. This antenna design is based on meander line miniaturization techniques and open complementary split ring resonator (OCSRR) elements to reduce the amount of conducting material required to manufacture the antenna by 30%. For demonstration purposes, a prototype near‐field UHF RFID tag was manufactured on a paper substrate and the read‐range was measured at 920 MHz. It was shown that useful read‐ranges could be achieved while reducing the overall cost and size of the antenna on the RFID tag. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 59:1052–1056, 2017