A meandered triple-band printed dipole antenna for RFID

• Main Authors: Abu, Maisarah, A. Rahim, Mohamad Kamal
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/14673/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/APMC.2009.5385292
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

In this paper, a meandered triple-band printed dipole antenna is proposed for radio frequency identification (RFID). This meandered tri-band printed dipole antenna is designed to operate at 0.92 GHz, 2.45 GHz and 5.8 GHz with the aid of computer simulation technology (CST) software. In order to achieve triple-band operation, the proposed antenna contains two branch elements, which act as an additional resonator. The designed antenna is fabricated using Taconic RF-35 substrate with a dielectric constant (�¿r) of 3.5 and thickness (h) of 0.508 mm. The antenna's parameters for triple-band operation are investigated and discussed. Then, this fabricated antenna is integrated with the UHF microchip to become a passive UHF tag. This tag is tested by measuring the reading distance and it is found that the proposed tag can be used for RFID application.