• DocumentCode
    1010877
  • Title

    Bidirectional radiated circularly polarised square-ring antenna for portable RFID reader

  • Author

    Lin, Yeou-Fu ; Chen, Hou-Ming ; Chu, F.-H. ; Pan, S.-C.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Photonics & Commun., Nat. Kaohsiung Univ. of Appl. Sci., Kaohsiung
  • Volume
    44
  • Issue
    24
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    1383
  • Lastpage
    1384
  • Abstract
    A novel single-layer, dual-fed technique for a bidirectional radiated circularly polarised square-ring antenna operated in the UHF band is presented. The two feed ports of the square-ring radiating element are placed in orthogonal directions and connected to a feeding network with a Wilkinson power divider in the same plane. Properly adjusting the size of the capacitive coupling groundplane results in good impedance matching and circularly polarised radiation, and a broad impedance bandwidth (S 11 les -10 dB) of about 45.2% and a 3 dB axial-ratio bandwidth of about 8.7% were obtained.
  • Keywords
    UHF antennas; antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; directive antennas; impedance matching; polarisation; power dividers; radiofrequency identification; UHF band operation; Wilkinson power divider; bidirectional radiated circularly polarised square-ring antenna; capacitive coupling groundplane; dual-fed technique; impedance matching; portable RFID reader;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20082579
  • Filename
    4689471