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Sanna Härmä¹, Wesley G Arthur, Clinton S Hartmann

¹Dept. of Eng. Phys., Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Helsinki. sanna.harma@tkk.fi

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This study introduces a novel Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) RFID tag combining time and phase encoding. This method significantly boosts data capacity by utilizing both response signal delays and phase shifts for enhanced data transmission.

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Area of Science:

Electrical Engineering
Materials Science
Telecommunications

Background:

Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) RFID tags traditionally use time position encoding for data.
Standard encryption methods rely on time delays of response signals, limiting data capacity.
Extracting phase information from tag responses offers a pathway to enhance SAW RFID data capacity.

Purpose of the Study:

To design and fabricate SAW RFID tag samples combining time position and phase encoding.
To investigate the potential for significantly enhancing data capacity in SAW RFID tags.
To achieve a low loss level for code reflections in the developed SAW RFID tags.

Main Methods:

Utilized Finite Element Method-Boundary Element Method (FEM-BEM) simulations for tag design.
Fabricated inline 2.44-GHz SAW RFID tag samples on 128° -LiNbO3 substrates.
Implemented a combined encoding scheme leveraging both time delays and phase shifts of reflective echoes.

Main Results:

Each reflective echo supports 4 time positions and 4 phase states (0°, -90°, -180°, -270°).
Achieved a data capacity of 16 states, equivalent to 4 bits of data per code reflector.
Demonstrated a low loss level of -38 dB for code reflections in the fabricated samples.

Conclusions:

The combined time position and phase encoding strategy effectively enhances SAW RFID data capacity.
The developed SAW RFID tags offer a significant improvement in data density compared to traditional methods.
The low loss performance indicates the practical viability of this enhanced encoding technique for RFID applications.