Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Compact Printed Yagi Antenna for Handheld UHF RFID Reader

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Compact Printed Yagi Antenna for Handheld UHF RFID Reader"
by Sivaji Kaki and Tapas Chakravarty,
in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Devices and Communications (ICDeCom) 2011

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

This paper was found to be a near verbatim copy of the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:

"Compact Yagi Antenna for Handheld UHF RFID Reader"
by P.V. Nikitin and K.V.S. Rao
in the Proceedings of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2010

"A Universal UHF RFID Reader Antenna"
by Zhi Ning Chen, Xianming Qing and Hang Leong Chung
in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volume 57 , Issue 5 , Part 2, 2009


This paper describes a compact high gain linear polarized printed Yagi antenna for a handheld UHF RFID reader that can be used in both Europe and US regions as well. The antenna is a Yagi type structure, with three elements (driver, director, and reflector) which fit into compact footprint (100 mm x 100 mm). The antenna has maximum gain of 5.3 dBi and VSWR is less than 2 in approximately 60 MHz band around European and US RFID bands (860 - 930 MHz). We describe the antenna structure and present the comparison of simulation results with experimental data.