Compact broadband dual coupling-feed circularly polarized RFID microstrip tag antenna mountable on metallic surface

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 5571-5577

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

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Circularly polarized; microstrip antenna; radio frequency identification (RFID); tag antenna

Indexed keywords

AXIAL RATIO; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; COUPLED LINES; COUPLING FEED; FEED LINE; INPUT IMPEDANCE; METALLIC SURFACE; MICROSTRIPES; QUARTER-WAVELENGTH; READING RANGE; RFID TAG ANTENNAS; TAG ANTENNA;

BANDWIDTH; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC LINES; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84870927923     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2210273     Document Type: Article

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