Development and Characterization of A Sticker-Typed Flexible Dipole RFID Tag Antenna

The paper deals with the development of a flexible dipole antenna which is printed on a thin plastic mica sheet for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) application. The characterization is applied experimentally for the proposed antenna in some bending conditions to demonstrate its feasibility as a front-end flexible device at Ultra High Frequency (UHF) band. The proposed dipole RFID tag antenna which takes a sticker-typed form is made by an aluminium foil as the radiator with the total size of 72.27 mm by 18.83 mm. The result shows that the realized antenna resonates at the frequency of 975 MHz and has the bandwidth response covering the desired application.