Chipless Radio Frequency Identification Tag for IoT Applications

This paper presents a new chipless radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology. The tag can operate at the conventional UHF band for RFID applications and can be implemented using a basic fabrication process. In the presented scheme, MEMS switches are used as programmable elements to support communication between the tag and RFID interrogators. Experimental measurements on a fabricated prototype indicate that the implemented tag can successfully communicate with an RFID reader. The measured S-parameters of the tag show less than 1 dB insertion loss and -17 dB return loss at 910 MHz center frequency.

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