Title :
Design of an UHF Quasi-Yagi antenna with metamaterial structures for RFID application
Author :
de Araujo, H.X. ; Barbin, S.E. ; Kretly, L.C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Microwaves & Opt., Univ. of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
fDate :
Oct. 29 2011-Nov. 1 2011
Abstract :
In this work, a Quasi-Yagi antenna is designed to operate at 2.4 GHz for RFID applications. The proposed device is composed by a Quasi-Yagi antenna surrounded by fractal metamaterial structures placed in strategic positions, which improve the bandwidth and enhance the antenna tuning at a desired frequency. Design guidelines to implement the fractal structures and the Quasi-Yagi antenna are presented. The obtained results show that the use of the proposed device to compose RFID systems is very promising.
Keywords :
UHF antennas; Yagi antenna arrays; fractal antennas; metamaterial antennas; radiofrequency identification; RFID application; RFID system; UHF quasiYagi antenna; antenna design; antenna tuning; bandwidth; design guideline; fractal metamaterial structure; frequency 2.4 GHz; Quasi-Yagi; RFID; cells; fractal; metamaterial;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave & Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC), 2011 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International
Conference_Location :
Natal
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1662-1
DOI :
10.1109/IMOC.2011.6169324
