Niver, Edip (Committee chair)
Whitman, Gerald Martin (Committee member)
Akansu, Ali N. (Committee member)
Carr, William N. (Committee member)
Date:
2009-08
Keywords:
RFID antenna
Ultra-high frequency
Availability:
Unrestricted
Abstract:
In this thesis, novel designs of radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag antennas with better matching characteristics to achieve extended range for passive tags have been investigated in the ultra-high frequency (UHF) band. A variety of cavitybacked/coupled microstrip dipole antennas in 915 MHz range were considered. Additionally, a negative impedance converter designed to cancel out antenna's input capacitance at resonance frequency and to produce the real antenna input impedance was designed, simulated and implemented for an RFID antenna. Numerical simulations have been carried out using ORCAD software package (Cadence), ADS software package (Agilent) and HFSS software package (ANSYS/ANSOFT Inc). Antennas have been designed, fabricated and tested; and a comparison of simulated and measured results were done. Further work is recommended to tune antennas to lower the return loss at operating frequency, in order to achieve an optimized range for use with passive tags.
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