A Fractal-Based Circularly Polarized UHF RFID Reader Antenna

This letter presents the design of a coplanar waveguide (CPW) circularly polarized antenna for the central frequency 900 MHz, it comes in handy for radio frequency identification (RFID) short-range reading applications within the band of 902-928 MHz where the axial ratio of proposed antenna model is less than 3 dB. The proposed design has an axial-ratio bandwidth of 36 MHz (4%) and impedance bandwidth of 256 MHz (28.5%).

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