UHF Wearable Antennas for RFID Applications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2020) | Viewed by 11970
Special Issue Editor
Interests: low-cost RFID tag design in the UHF band; wearable antennas design and interaction with the human body; design of substrate integrated waveguides slot antennas in the UHF band; microwave antennas design using genetic programming; periodic structures design (EBG and AMC) through evolutionary programming; printed log-periodic dipole antennas design using innovative feeding techniques and inkjet printing; synthesis, analysis, and design of wire; patch and slot antennas
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Dear Colleagues,
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology has recently attracted significant interest in wearable applications, especially in the UHF frequency band, where devices operate in the far-field region, allowing long haul links. Several design challenges are associated with wearable RFID technologies, including operation frequencies, the influence of the surrounding biological tissues, antenna design and miniaturization, and conforming to international safety guidelines. Different fabrication methods are available for realizing flexible, conformal, and robust RFID device prototypes. The presence of the human body in close proximity to the RFID device is probably the most critical difficulty in terms of design, fabrication, and testing, which must be faced in order to allow appropriate developments in the field of health care and of body-area applications in general.
Authors are invited to submit articles reporting recent advances in wearable antennas for RFID applications in the UHF frequency band. The Special Issue is mainly focused on new design methodologies and simulation techniques to face the problems imposed by the human body proximity, which significantly modifies the performance of wearable antennas. The scope of this Special Issue will be the collection of new full research and/or review results, and highly rated manuscripts exploring the above topic.
Dr. Giovanni Andrea Casula
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- UHF RFID applications
- RFID antennas
- Wearable antennas
- Body–antenna coupling
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