Conformal Fractal Loop Antennas for RFID Tag Applications

Author

Andrenko, Andrey S.

Author_Institution

YRP R&D Center, Fujitsu Lab. Ltd., Yokosuka

fYear

2005

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents the design of novel conformal fractal loop antennas proposed for the rapidly developing RF identification (RFID) wireless technology. Two antennas, based on Koch and Hilbert fractal geometries, are designed and optimized for 0.953 GHz RFID band. Key design requirement has been maximizing the antenna gain and directivity that results in increasing the read range of RFID system. Full-wave EM simulation results illustrating the radiation characteristics of the proposed antennas are presented. Antenna layout has been defined to fit the specified size of RFID tags. The design trade-off between the space-filling properties of the fractal geometry and required antenna gain performance is discussed

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; conformal antennas; fractal antennas; loop antennas; radiofrequency identification; 0.953 GHz; RF identification; RFID tag applications; conformal fractal loop antennas; fractal geometry; full-wave EM simulation; radiation characteristics; wireless technology; Communication system security; Design optimization; Fractals; Geometry; Manufacturing; RFID tags; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency identification; Technical Activities Guide -TAG; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Electromagnetics and Communications, 2005. ICECom 2005. 18th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dubrovnik

Print_ISBN

953-6037-44-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECOM.2005.205008

Filename

1613515