A miniaturized electronic beam-scanning phased-array antenna for radio-frequency identification (RFID) applications

Author

Chang, Chih-Lin ; Wu, Chi-Hsing ; Tseng, Chao-Hsiung

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents a miniaturized electronic beam-scanning phased-array antenna for ultra-high-frequency (UHF) radio-frequency identification (RFID) applications. The developed antenna consists of two dipole antennas and a beam-scanning network, which is composed by two reflection-type phase shifters and a power divider. To reduce the fabrication cost, the circuit sizes of the beam-scanning components are miniaturized using shunt-stub-based artificial transmission lines. The measured results of the developed phased-array antenna are in good agreement with the calculated results by the antenna array theory.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna phased arrays; beam steering; dipole antenna arrays; radiofrequency identification; telecommunication transmission lines; RFID; UHF antenna array; antenna array theory; beam scanning component; beam scanning network; circuit size; dipole antenna; fabrication cost reduction; miniaturized electronic beam scanning; phased array antenna; power divider; radiofrequency identification; reflection-type phase shifter; shunt stub-based artificial transmission lines; ultra high frequency; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Arrays; Dipole antennas; Loss measurement; Phased arrays; Radiofrequency identification; beam-scanning antenna; dipole antenna; phase shifter; radio-frequency identification (RFID);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Anti-Counterfeiting, Security and Identification (ASID), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

ISSN

2163-5048

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2144-0

Electronic_ISBN

2163-5048

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASID.2012.6325343

Filename

6325343