A novel method for impedance measurement of balanced UHF RFID tag antennas

作者:Wang, Bo*; Zhuang, Yiqi; Li, Xiaoming; Ren, Xiaojiao; Qi, Zengwei; Zhang, Yanlong
来源:Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, 2014, 28(16): 2059-2066.
DOI:10.1080/09205071.2014.957350

摘要

This paper proposes a novel method for the impedance measurement of balanced UHF RFID tag antennas. The traditional method used a wire balun-connected probe to measure balanced antennas. But this technique has a system error that results from the wire balun effects. This paper presents a novel method to de-embed the wire balun effects and improve the accuracy of measurement based on algorithm. Comparing with other de-embed methods, the novel method does not need the inner structure of fixture or rely on the accuracy of modelling the measurement fixture.