On-chip antenna design for UHF RFID

An on-chip antenna suitable for radio frequency identification at UHF band is presented. It is integrated with an EPC Class 1 Generation 2 compatible tag in SMIC 0.18 m standard CMOS process. The tag achieves a 1 cm communication distance with 1 W reader output power.

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