AN INDUCTIVE SELF-COMPLEMENTARY HILBERT-CURVE ANTENNA FOR UHF RFID BROADBAND AND CIRCULAR POLARIZATION TAGS

A novel fractal tag antenna constructed with Hilbertcurve and self-complementary configuration is proposed for UHF RFID applications. The main aim of this paper is to merge the meander line and meandered-slot structure of the RFID tag antenna in order to obtain a good performance of compact, broadband, circular polarization and conjugate impedance matching. The tunable inductive and broadband (−10 dB BW = 115 MHz) characteristics Corresponding author: J. C. Liu (jichyun@cyu.edu.tw).

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