Project Presentation on

Designing of
Microstrip Antenna For
RFID
OUTLINE
• What is MICROSTRIP ANTENNA?
• Microstrip antenna structure
• Feed technique
• What is RFID
• RFID implementation
• Design of microstrip
• Results
• Bibliography
What is Microstrip antenna?
 Microstrip antenna is a metallic patch printed on a
thin ,grounded dielectric substrate .
 Feed with coaxial line or coplanar microstrip line.
 It radiates a broad beam broadside to the plane of
the substrate.
 After the original configuration was proposed,
dozens of variations in patch shape, feeding
techniques, substrate confg. and array geometries
have been developed.
Basic Structure

 Consists of a radiating patch of metal usually a copper

conductor (thickness t<<λo)

 A dielectric substrate (of thickness h<<λo and dielectric constant

Єr)

 A microstrip feed line is generally used to excite the patch antenna.

Microstrip antenna
Parameter affecting antenna

 Patch Geometry

 Substrate property

 Feed technique
Patch Geometry

Square Rectangular Dipole Circular

Elliptical Ring Sector Triangular

Dielectric Substrate
 A dielectric substrate with properties such as low loss, low
dielectric, and sufficiently thick substrate can provide
maximum radiation efficiency and bandwidth.

 However, the antenna dimensions are large when low dielectric

substrates are used.

 Low loss substrates provide good radiation efficiency.

 But also make the microstrip antenna a high-Q device, resulting

in narrow bandwidth.

 high dielectric substrates , higher loss , reduced performance.

Feed Techniques
 Classified on two broad categories:-

 Directly connected to patch.

Eg:-microstrip line, coaxial line.

microstrip line coaxial line

 Coupled to the patch.
Eg:- aperture coupling and proximity.

aperture coupling proximity coupling.

What is RFID?
 Radio Frequency Identification Device.

 RFID is an automatic identification method.

 It stores and remotely retrieves data from RFID

tag/transponders.
RFID system block representation
Implementation
Implementation of RFID
 The reader is connected to host computer.
 It programs the reader & store information received
from the transponder.
 Transponder is placed on the object to be identified.
 Reader is radio transceiver connected to antennas.
 The tag consists of an antenna & the RFID IC that
contains data.
Classification of RFID

 Based on tags
• Active tags
• Passive tags
 Based on frequency
• LFID (30–300 kHz)
• HFID (3-30 MHz)
• UHFID (300 MHz-3 GHz)
Why Microstrip antenna in RFID?

 Easily mountable.

 Structurally robust and light weight.

 “Metal -water “problem in dipoles.

Designing of antenna
 It is possible to design the rectangular microstrip
antenna using the following equations with the aid of
the software package SONNET LITE -11.55
 Select the substrate material of relative permittivity
 Єr=2.45 Taconic TLX0
 Dielectric height (h) h<<λo ,taken to be 0.787mm
(apprx.)
 Metallization thickness of 0.2mm (copper)
 Calculation of the practical width of the microstrip
patch conductor
Calculation of the practical length width of the microstrip
patch conductor width by:
Substituting values of εeff and ΔL in formulae of L
,Calculate L Cell size should be < λo/20 .

Using sonnet we simulate the design of antenna done

on the calculated dimensions and specifications

Finally we got the response graph of frequency and

negative return loss in dB
.
TXLINE Calculator
PARAMETER CALCULATED

Parameters Values
Length of antenna patch 39.15mm
Width of antenna patch 46.99mm
Thickness of patch 0.2mm
Dielectric material Taconic-TLX0
Dielectric constant of 2.45
substrate
Width of substrate 0.787mm
Cell size 2 × 1.5 mm
ANTENNA STRUCTURE

PATCH

MATCHING
DEVICE

MICROSTRIP LINE
RESULT
SMITH CHART
Bibliography
 RFID transponder by Stevan Preradovic,Nemai C.
Karmakar, Issac Balbin.
 Novel microstrip antenna on RFID by Madhuri
Eunni.
 Notes on microstrip antenna by Sanjeev Gupta.
 Microstrip anteena by D.M.Pozar
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