The Albano Passive UHF Tag Antenna: Design and Performance Evaluation

Author

Delichatsios, Alki ; Engels, Daniel W.

Author_Institution

Auto-ID Labs, Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA

fYear

2006

fDate

9-14 July 2006

Firstpage

3209

Lastpage

3212

Abstract

This paper presents the novel three-dimensional Albano tag antenna which not only radiates omnidirectionally, but performs extremely well in the presence of conductive materials both in static and dynamic environments. Off the three tested tags, only the Albano tag radiated with 100% efficiency in every direction in the dynamic environment, satisfying Gillette´s conveyor-belt requirement for tagged cases. The three-dimensional Albano design is feasibly applied in practice because it attaches to a package when it is flat. When the flat package is folded into a carton, the Albano tag assumes its three-dimensional shape

Keywords

UHF antennas; dipole antennas; directive antennas; radiofrequency identification; Albano passive UHF tag antenna; Gillette conveyor-belt requirement; conductive materials; three-dimensional Albano tag antenna; Conducting materials; Dipole antennas; Directive antennas; Inorganic materials; Passive RFID tags; Radiofrequency identification; Supply chains; Technical Activities Guide -TAG; UHF antennas; Wire;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 2006, IEEE

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0123-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2006.1711294

Filename

1711294