Coupling-feed circularly polarized RFID tag antenna mountable on metallic surface

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2166-2174

  Chen, Horng Dean ^a   Kuo, Shang Huang ^a   Sim, Chow Yen Desmond ^b   Tsai, Ching Han ^a  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Circular polarization; microstrip antenna; radio frequency identification (RFID); tag antenna

Indexed keywords

AXIAL RATIO; CAPACITIVELY COUPLED; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; COMPACT SIZE; INPUT IMPEDANCE; L-SHAPED; METALLIC SURFACE; PASSIVE RFID; RADIATING ELEMENTS; READING RANGE; RFID TAG ANTENNAS; SHORTING PIN; TAG ANTENNA; UHF BAND;

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MICROSTRIP LINES; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO NAVIGATION; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84860697019     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2189702     Document Type: Article

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