RFID Tag Antennas for Medical Applications

............................................................................................. ............vi Acknowledgement ............................................................................................viii List of Figures .................................................................................................... xii List of Tables ..................................................................................................... xvi List of Acronyms ............................................................................................. xvii Chapter 1: Introduction ........................................................................................ 1 1.1 Background .............................................................................................. 1 1.2 Motivation of RFID Technology in Healthcare ...................................... 2 1.3 RFID Healthcare Applications ................................................................ 2 1.4 RFID-Enabling Functions and Healthcare Applications ........................ 3 1.5 Benefits and Challenges of RFID-Based Healthcare Systems ............... 4 1.6 Scope and Objectives of the Thesis ......................................................... 6 1.6.1 RFID tag antennas for patient-centric wireless healthcare ............ 6 1.6.2 Chipless RFID tags for inexpensive item-level management ....... 7 1.7 Thesis Layout ........................................................................................... 8 Chapter 2: Principle and Theory of RFID ......................................................... 10 2.1 Components of RFID ............................................................................. 10 2.2 RFID tags ............................................................................................... 11 2.3 RFID Tag Antennas ............................................................................... 16 2.3.1 Impedance matching and power transfer ..................................... 17 2.3.2 Impedance bandwidth, Reflection coefficient, VSWR and RL .. 17 2.3.3 Directivity and absolute gain ........................................................ 19 2.3.4 Read range..................................................................................... 20 2.3.5 Design procedure of RFID tag antenna ........................................ 20 2.4 Chipless RFID Tags ............................................................................... 22 2.4.1 Classification of chipless RFID tags ............................................ 24 2.4.2 Operating principle of frequency signature chipless tags ............ 24 Chapter 3: Dielectric Characterization of The Human Body ........................... 27 3.1 Important Dielectric Properties ............................................................. 27

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