TY - JOUR
T1 - Compact broadband circularly-polarised antenna with a backed cavity for UHF RFID applications
AU - Li, Junlong
AU - Liu, Hui
AU - Zhang, Shuai
AU - Zhang, Yuan
AU - He, Sailing
PY - 2019/5/22
Y1 - 2019/5/22
N2 - A compact broadband circularly-polarised (CP) antenna is designed with a novel method for universal ultra-high-frequency (UHF) radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers. It is composed of a compact ring-shaped patch which aims to decrease the size of the antenna. A quadrature 3.dB coupler placed below the ground plane creates 90°phase differences to generate the CP radiation of the antenna. To improve the performance of the proposed antenna and minimise its size, the authors use a coupling feeding method, an FR4 dielectric slab, and a metal cavity. The coupled feeding is implemented to eliminate the mismatching between the long probe and the ring-shaped patch, and to improve the gain over the operating band. The introduction of an FR4 dielectric slab and a cavity can reduce the antenna size and improve the impedance matching and axial-ratio (AR) bandwidth. The antenna with a backed cavity can increase the front-to-back ratio remarkably and improve the CP performance further. The measured results show that the antenna with a low profile (0.45λ
0 × 0.45λ
0 × 0.06λ
0 at 915.MHz) has the impedance bandwidth of 30.2% (730-990.MHz) and 3.dB AR bandwidth of 24.2% (760-970.MHz). Both the impedance and the AR bandwidth cover the worldwide UHF RFID band.
AB - A compact broadband circularly-polarised (CP) antenna is designed with a novel method for universal ultra-high-frequency (UHF) radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers. It is composed of a compact ring-shaped patch which aims to decrease the size of the antenna. A quadrature 3.dB coupler placed below the ground plane creates 90°phase differences to generate the CP radiation of the antenna. To improve the performance of the proposed antenna and minimise its size, the authors use a coupling feeding method, an FR4 dielectric slab, and a metal cavity. The coupled feeding is implemented to eliminate the mismatching between the long probe and the ring-shaped patch, and to improve the gain over the operating band. The introduction of an FR4 dielectric slab and a cavity can reduce the antenna size and improve the impedance matching and axial-ratio (AR) bandwidth. The antenna with a backed cavity can increase the front-to-back ratio remarkably and improve the CP performance further. The measured results show that the antenna with a low profile (0.45λ
0 × 0.45λ
0 × 0.06λ
0 at 915.MHz) has the impedance bandwidth of 30.2% (730-990.MHz) and 3.dB AR bandwidth of 24.2% (760-970.MHz). Both the impedance and the AR bandwidth cover the worldwide UHF RFID band.
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U2 - 10.1049/iet-map.2018.5321
DO - 10.1049/iet-map.2018.5321
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1751-8725
VL - 13
SP - 789
EP - 795
JO - IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation
JF - IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation
IS - 6
ER -