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This chapter is focused on the design of UHF-RFID tags to be mounted on optical discs (CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs). Due to the reflective layer buried under their surface, optical discs must be treated like metallic objects within the context of RFID tagging. The most challenging aspect is that the common solutions employed for metallic surfaces are not suitable in this case, and the solutions created ad hoc suffer from poor performance when compared to general-purpose UHF-RFID tags. In this work, a novel approach to the problem is proposed, which allows overcoming the abovementioned limitations and greatly reduces the performance gap with respect to general-purpose tags.
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Zuffanelli, S. (2018). UHF-RFID Tags for Optical Discs. In: Antenna Design Solutions for RFID Tags Based on Metamaterial-Inspired Resonators and Other Resonant Structures. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62030-5_4
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