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Backfire suppressed low profile aperture coupled stacked patch antenna backed by a high impedance surface (HIS) reflector for UHF RFID reader applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2021

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Sangkil Kim*
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Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea
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Abstract

In this paper, a backfire suppressed aperture coupled circularly polarized (CP) stacked patch antenna for universal ultra-high frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification applications is presented. Cross-polarized backfire radiation patterns were successfully suppressed by a planar high impedance surface (HIS) reflector. The size of the fabricated antenna is 250 × 250 × 26.9 mm3 (0.71λ0 × 0.71λ0 × 0.076λ0) and its peak gain value of 7.1 dBi is measured. The distance between the antenna and the HIS reflector is only 4.8 mm (0.014 λ0). The HIS reflector suppressed cross-pol backfire radiations by about 10 dB. Detailed antenna and HIS reflector design are discussed thoroughly in this paper. The presented backfire suppression technique using the HIS reflector is scalable to other applications and frequency bands. This paper demonstrates the feasibility of the HIS structure at UHF band.

Keywords

Circularly polarized antennaelectromagnetic bandgap (EBG)high impedance surface (HIS) reflectorstacked patch antennaUHF RFID reader antenna
Type
Antenna Design, Modelling and Measurements
Information
International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies , Volume 13 , Issue 10 , December 2021 , pp. 1072 - 1077
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press in association with the European Microwave Association

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