Circularly Polarized Cross-Dipole Antenna for UHF RFID Readers Applicated in the Warehouse Environment
In this paper, we proposed a broadband circularly polarized antenna with wide beamwidth. The main structure of the proposed antenna is a combined cross-polarized dipole antenna, four metal arms, a single coaxial cable and two feed structures with 90° phase delay. In order to attain a wide...
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| description | In this paper, we proposed a broadband circularly polarized antenna with wide beamwidth. The main structure of the proposed antenna is a combined cross-polarized dipole antenna, four metal arms, a single coaxial cable and two feed structures with 90° phase delay. In order to attain a wide beamwidth antenna performance that can be used in a warehouse environment, we innovatively bent the metal arms and added a metal plane at a specific location to gain maximum beamwidth and the highest achievable gain. Especially, the application of metal bending arms not only reduce the space size of antenna, but also possess good axial ratio characteristic. The measurement illustrates that the antenna prototype achieves S11 < −10 dB impedance bandwidth (IBW) of 40% (820 – 1230 MHz), a 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW) of 7.3% (895 – 970 MHz), and a maximum half-power beamwidth (HPBW) of 104° (@915 MHz). In addition, the good radiation characteristics of a gain of 6.33 dBic and an average radiation efficiency of 76.3% were measured in the operating bandwidth, which makes the proposed antenna a good candidate for the hasty logistics radio frequency identification (RFID) system. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c5fdcd950f0d45b7898109b238c4cfca2023-04-25T23:00:44ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362023-01-0111386573866410.1109/ACCESS.2023.325354210061399Circularly Polarized Cross-Dipole Antenna for UHF RFID Readers Applicated in the Warehouse EnvironmentFulin Xue0Yiming Zhang1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6428-2495Junlong Li2Hui Liu3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0516-0383Quectel Wireless Solutions Company Ltd., Foshan, ChinaCenter for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, National Engineering Research Center for Optical Instruments, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, ChinaDepartment of Oceanography, Shanwei Institute of Technology, Shanwei, ChinaSchool of Electronic and Information, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou, ChinaIn this paper, we proposed a broadband circularly polarized antenna with wide beamwidth. The main structure of the proposed antenna is a combined cross-polarized dipole antenna, four metal arms, a single coaxial cable and two feed structures with 90° phase delay. In order to attain a wide beamwidth antenna performance that can be used in a warehouse environment, we innovatively bent the metal arms and added a metal plane at a specific location to gain maximum beamwidth and the highest achievable gain. Especially, the application of metal bending arms not only reduce the space size of antenna, but also possess good axial ratio characteristic. The measurement illustrates that the antenna prototype achieves S11 < −10 dB impedance bandwidth (IBW) of 40% (820 – 1230 MHz), a 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW) of 7.3% (895 – 970 MHz), and a maximum half-power beamwidth (HPBW) of 104° (@915 MHz). In addition, the good radiation characteristics of a gain of 6.33 dBic and an average radiation efficiency of 76.3% were measured in the operating bandwidth, which makes the proposed antenna a good candidate for the hasty logistics radio frequency identification (RFID) system.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10061399/Wide beamwidthcircular polarization (CP)single feedcross-polarized dipolefolded metal armsRFID |
| spellingShingle | Fulin Xue Yiming Zhang Junlong Li Hui Liu Circularly Polarized Cross-Dipole Antenna for UHF RFID Readers Applicated in the Warehouse Environment IEEE Access Wide beamwidth circular polarization (CP) single feed cross-polarized dipole folded metal arms RFID |
| title | Circularly Polarized Cross-Dipole Antenna for UHF RFID Readers Applicated in the Warehouse Environment |
| title_full | Circularly Polarized Cross-Dipole Antenna for UHF RFID Readers Applicated in the Warehouse Environment |
| title_fullStr | Circularly Polarized Cross-Dipole Antenna for UHF RFID Readers Applicated in the Warehouse Environment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Circularly Polarized Cross-Dipole Antenna for UHF RFID Readers Applicated in the Warehouse Environment |
| title_short | Circularly Polarized Cross-Dipole Antenna for UHF RFID Readers Applicated in the Warehouse Environment |
| title_sort | circularly polarized cross dipole antenna for uhf rfid readers applicated in the warehouse environment |
| topic | Wide beamwidth circular polarization (CP) single feed cross-polarized dipole folded metal arms RFID |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10061399/ |
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