• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.5 s.120
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• pp.563-568
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• 2007

In this paper, the proposed package antenna, which is meander line structure with short pin, is miniaturized to realize RF-SoP at 900 MHz RFID band. The RFID BGA(Ball Grid Array) chip is put in a cavity of LTCC Layers. The coupling and cross talk, which are happen between BGA chip and proposed package antenna, are reduced by faraday cage, which consists of ground and via fences, is realized to enhance the isolation between BGA chip and antenna. The proposed antenna structure is focused on the package level antenna realization at low frequency band. The novel proposed package antenna size is $13mm{\times}9mm{\times}3.51mm$. The measured resonance frequency is 0.893 GHz. The impedance bandwidth is 9 MHz. The maximum gain of radiation pattern is -2.36 dBi.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.454-461
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to analyze the RFID recognition performance by level of water. A 13.56 MHz RFID management system for packaged liquid food logistics is consisted of antenna, reader, passive type tags, and embedded controller. The tests were conducted at different level of water, distances between tag and antenna, and position of attached tags. To analyze the RFID recognition performance, maximum recognition distances for a container and recognition rates for a logistics made of 27 containers were measured and analyzed. The maximum recognition distance for a container was different depending on position of attached tags, and attached tag at upside position showed a good performance. But, the recognition rate of 27 containers showed a good ability for attached tags at front side position, 30~35 cm distance to antenna, and water level 1. Therefore, to manage packaged liquid food logistics using RFID system, position of attached tag, distances between tag and antenna, and level of water should be considered.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.6 s.121
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• pp.602-611
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• 2007

In this paper, the forward link of UHF RFID system is modeled in accordance with the EPCglobal class 1 generation 2(EPCglobal C1G2) UHF Radio-Frequency Identity protocol specification at $860{\sim}960MHz$. Based on the constructed model, characteristics on the forward link signal for the EPCglobal C1G2 RFID reader are simulated with the help of a MATLAB softwarein order to extract the design parameters of a transmit digital filter which meets the Korean RFID regulations. Herein, the forward link model is consisted of PIE source coding, transmit digital filter, modulation, local oscillator, and antenna. From the simulation results, the ranges of three design parameters(roll-off factor, cutoff frequency, the number of tabs) for transmit digital filter are obtained with different modulation techniques and the Tari(type a reference interval) values. Finally, DSB/SSB-ASK modulation technique can not satisfy the EPCglobal C1G2 specification when Tari equals to $6.25{\mu}sec$ in a multiple-reader environment. Consequently this paper can provide a guideline for design parameters of a RFID reader as well as the basic scheme of analyzing frequency interference problems in RFID environments, including multiple-reader and dense-reader environments.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.9
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• pp.802-810
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• 2012

This paper describes RFID(Radio Frequency Identification) based target acquisition and docking system. RFID is non-contact identification system, which can send relatively large amount of information using RF signal. Robot employing RFID reader can identify neighboring tag attached objects without any other sensing or supporting systems such as vision sensor. However, the current RFID does not provide spatial information of the identified object, the target docking problem remains in order to execute a task in a real environment. For the problem, the direction sensing RFID reader is developed using a dual-directional antenna. The dual-directional antenna is an antenna set, which is composed of perpendicularly positioned two identical directional antennas. By comparing the received signal strength in each antenna, the robot can know the DOA (Direction of Arrival) of transmitted RF signal. In practice, the DOA estimation poses a significant technical challenge, since the RF signal is easily distorted by the surrounded environmental conditions. Therefore, the robot loses its way to the target in an electromagnetically disturbed environment. For the problem, the g-filter based error correction algorithm is developed in this paper. The algorithm reduces the error using the difference of variances between current estimated and the previously filtered directions. The simulation and experiment results clearly demonstrate that the robot equipped with the developed system can successfully dock to a target tag in obstacles-cluttered environment.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.11
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• pp.1243-1253
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• 2007

Recently UHF RFID system has drawn a great deal of attention because of its potential to revolutionize supply chain management. An important characterization of the performance of a RFID system is 'interrogation range', which is defined as the maximum distance between a reader and a tag. Forward-link interrogation range is defined as the maximum distance from which the tag receives just enough power to turn on and back-scatter, and reverse-tink interrogation range is the maximum distance from which the reader can detect this back-scattered signal. A link balance has to be found between the two interrogation ranges. In this paper, the interrogation range equations are formulated in both forward-link and reverse-link and a trade-off between the two values is investigated in order to maximize the interrogation range. As a result, it is observed that the gain of the reader antenna, the isolation of the circulator, and the phase noise of the local oscillator with range correlation effect mainly determine the reverse-link interrogation range.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2006.07a
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• pp.257-257
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• 2006

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.39-45
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• 2009

In this paper, we discuss hardware design and deployment issues in current passive UHF RFID systems. Using the link budget concept, the methodology to calculate forward- and reverse-link interrogation range is shown. Then, we consider hardware issues: phase diversity, phase noise with range correlation, and TX leakage problems. Finally, three interference problems when deploying RFID systems are presented.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.1247-1252
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• 2005

Recently, Ubiquitous Computing is being actively researched and one of the main technology in ubiquitous computing environment is recognized as RFID system. The RFID system is automatic recognition technique using radio frequency that attached a tag to product read information and able to record without physical contact. In this paper, classification of tag, an operation, structure and etc of the RFID system and described on the 900MHz region radio antenna radiation characteristics.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2008.04c
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• pp.18-21
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• 2008

기존의 대부분의 안테나는 한정된 공간에서 한정범위의 인식이 곤란한 단점이 있었다. 이러한 단점을 개선하고 소형화를 위하여, 간단한 형태의 다이폴안테나를 설계 하였다. Ansoft사의 Designer를 이용하여 안테나 시뮬레이션을 수행 하였으며, 산업체의 자동화 공정이나, 컨베이어상에서 제품에 부착된 전자태그의 인식효율과 소형화를 고려하여 설계하였다. 설계한 안테나는 RFID 안테나의 소형화와 한정된 공간에서 Tag 의 인식을 위해 테프론 기판을 이용한 다이폴 형태로 구현 제작하였다. 본 연구결과 설계 제작된 안테나는, 도우넛형태의 방사패턴을 가지며, 협소한 지역에 전파를 방사시켜서, 주변의 불필요한 태그의 인식을 최소로 하였고, 실제로 컨베이어 장치를 이용하여 개발 제품의 성능 테스트를 수행하였으며, 그 결과 제품의 우수성을 검증 하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.1563_1564
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• 2009

전자파가 인체에 미치는 영향에 대한 연구중 SAR(Specific Absorption Ratio)에 관한연구는 매우 활발하게 이루어지고 있으나 단파(High Frequency)대역에 의한 인체유도전류에 대한 연구는 미흡한 편이다. 본 연구에서는 근거리장에서 단파대역 RFID 리더 안테나에 의한 인체에 유도되는 전류를 측정하고 이를 등가화 할 수 있는 수직교차루프 형태의 인체등가 모형을 제시하여 인체의 유도전류량과 비교하였다.