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Modified Planar Square-Loop Antenna for Electronic Article Surveillance Radio Frequency Identification Applications

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In this paper, a modified design of a planar square-loop antenna is presented for Electronic Article Surveillance (8.2 MHz) Radio Frequency Identification applications. The main purpose of the proposed design is to enhance the transmission efficiency of a loop antenna without disturbing other performance parameters. For that purpose, the spacing between the loop turns is adjusted in such a way that the coupling between similar loop antennas can be enhanced. Therefore, from measured results, it is observed that the proposed antenna provides a transmission efficiency of 63.92% at a center frequency of 8.198 MHz, and it also provides a –10 dB impedance bandwidth of 6 kHz.

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  1. School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, 100081, Beijing, China

    M. N. Zahid, J. Jiang & D. Eric

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

    U. Rafique

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Zahid, M.N., Jiang, J., Rafique, U. et al. Modified Planar Square-Loop Antenna for Electronic Article Surveillance Radio Frequency Identification Applications. J. Commun. Technol. Electron. 65, 1161–1166 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064226920100071

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