Design of a small microstrip tag antenna for RFID applications

Author

Moussa, M. Si ; Kouki, A.B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Commun. & Microelectron. Lab. (LACIME), Montreal, QC, Canada

fYear

2011

fDate

14-17 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, a compact planar antenna is proposed, for RFID application at microwave band. The antenna is fabricated by using RO-3006 dielectric substrate with permittivity 6.15. Momentum ADS software is used for simulation design process. The antenna has been tested with the Vector Network Analyzer and with its three branch sinusoid shape a resonance frequency was measured at 6.8 GHz. The best return loss for the antenna is -25 dB (measured) with a gain of 3.16 dBi. The total size of the sinusoid-shaped antenna is 32 × 8 mm.

Keywords

digital simulation; microstrip antennas; network analysers; permittivity; radiofrequency identification; telecommunication computing; RFID; RO-3006 dielectric substrate; branch sinusoid shape; compact planar antenna; frequency 6.8 GHz; loss -25 dB; microstrip tag antenna; microwave band; momentum ADS software; permittivity; resonance frequency; return loss; simulation design process; sinusoid-shaped antenna; vector network analyzer; Antennas; Gain; Monitoring; Radiofrequency identification; Microstrip antenna; Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID); Tag;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fly by Wireless Workshop (FBW), 2011 4th Annual Caneus

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0971-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0972-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FBW.2011.5965579

Filename

5965579