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Circularly Polarized Corner-Truncated and Slotted Microstrip Patch Antenna on Textile Substrate for Wearable Passive UHF RFID Tags

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Abstract

We present a compact circularly polarized (CP) antenna for wearable passive UHF RFID tags. The antenna is a square-shaped microstrip patch antenna where we have applied corner truncation and slotting techniques in the top layer conductor for achieving the CP property and a shorting pin and loop structure for impedance matching. Despite using a lowpermittivity textile as antenna substrate, the antenna's footprint size is only 5-by-5 cm, which is approximately 15% of the operating wavelength. At the same time, the on-body measurements, the antenna's axial ratio is 0.9 dB and the measured attainable read range (reader's EIRP =3.28W) of the tag reaches 4.2 meters with a CP reader antenna and ranges from 2.9 meters to 3.4 meters for a linear reader antenna, depending on the rotation angle between the antennas.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2020
PublisherIEEE
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9788831299008
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2020
Publication typeA4 Article in conference proceedings
EventEuropean Conference on Antennas and Propagation - Copenhagen, Denmark
Duration: 15 Mar 202020 Mar 2020

Publication series

Name14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2020

Conference

ConferenceEuropean Conference on Antennas and Propagation
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityCopenhagen
Period15/03/2020/03/20

Keywords

  • circular polarization
  • RFID tag
  • UHF
  • wearable antenna

Publication forum classification

  • Publication forum level 1

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Signal Processing
  • Instrumentation
  • Radiation

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