A Novel Wideband CPW-Fed 5.8GHz RFID Tag Antenna

A novel wideband 5.8GHz CPW-fed antenna is presented for Radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. Four U-shaped and four L-shaped branches are used as additional resonators to achieve wideband operation. The proposed antenna was analyzed numerically using the Method of moment (MOM) and the Finite element method (FEM). With the antenna size limited to 30 × 30mm², the -10dB bandwidth obtained by MOM is 3.235GHz (5.765～9GHz) and the -9.5dB bandwidth obtained by FEM is 2.74GHz (5.32～8.06GHz), corresponding to 55.7% and 47.2% of the center frequency 5.8GHz respectively. Moreover, the simulated results show that the proposed antenna has gain of more than 4.8dBi and the radiation pattern is nearly omnidirectional in the H-plane. The measured -10dB bandwidth is 2.68GHz (5.63GHz～8.31GHz), 46.2% of the 5.8GHz frequency. Furthermore, there are three measured resonant frequencies at 1.34GHz, 3.23GHz and 5.8GHz with lower than -10dB return loss respectively. The measurement result achieves a wideband RFID tag antenna performance and is in good agreement with the calculated results.