An NFC transceiver with RF-powered RFID transponder mode

A single chip NFC transceiver supporting not only NFC active and passive mode but also 13.56 MHz RFID reader and tag mode was designed and fabricated. The proposed NFC transceiver can operate as a RFID tag even without external power supply thanks to a dual antenna structure for initiator and target. The area increment due to additional target antenna is negligible because the target antenna is constructed by using a shielding layer of initiator antenna.

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