Title :
Analysis of integrated slot-type tag antennas for passive UHF RFID
Author :
Ukkonen, Leena ; Schaffrath, Marijke ; Sydänheimo, Lauri ; Kivikoski, Markku
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Electron., Tampere Univ. of Technol.
Abstract :
This paper presents and analyses integrated slot-type tag antennas for passive UHF RFID. Many cardboard packages are nowadays foiled with highly conductive material, and these slot-type tag antennas can be easily integrated into the packages by cutting a slot into the foiled surface of the container. This makes integrated and cost-effective tag antennas possible for container and item-level tagging. In this paper the radiation properties of slot-type tag antennas are modeled with finite element method (FEM) simulation tool and the performance of the tag antennas attached to conductive and liquid-containing packages is verified in practice with read range measurements
Keywords :
UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; finite element analysis; radiofrequency identification; slot antennas; FEM; conductive packages; container tagging; finite element method; integrated slot-type tag antennas; item-level tagging; liquid-containing packages; passive UHF RFID; radiation properties; radiofrequency identification; Antenna measurements; Conducting materials; Containers; Finite element methods; Packaging; Passive RFID tags; Radiofrequency identification; Slot antennas; Tagging; UHF antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 2006, IEEE
Conference_Location :
Albuquerque, NM
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0123-2
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2006.1710794
