IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification

Special Issue on “Chipless Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology” (click for more)

Important Dates:
• Submission Deadline: November 30, 2023
• Tentative Publication Date (for the Editorial with the list of all accepted papers): March 31, 2024
As soon as the authors of the accepted papers submit the final files, their manuscript will be published on IEEE
Explore as Early Access paper.

Chipless RFID is an emerging technology aimed at embedding a code or some information within the signal backscattered by a passive tag when interrogated with radio frequency EM wave. Differently from classical Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) where the information coding is performed by an integrated circuit (IC) directly
connected to an emitting antenna and powered by the impinging signal, the coding in chipless RFID tags is carried out directly by the antenna or the resonant scatterers that performs the data processing at the physical level. This means that chipless RFID technology responds to environmental challenges offering a sustainable solution.

Chipless RFID tags can be used also as a sensing platform for indirect measurement of several environmental quantities, or mechanical changes, extracted from the measured backscattering spectrum. A large effort has been
put in improving the information encoding and to extract the information reliably with a remote measurement.

However, several challenges remain open such as the reliability of the chipless RFID tags with large amount of
data in specific applicative scenarios and their low-cost fabrication methods. Also, the realization of portable
readers both at microwaves but also in mm-wave range remains an open challenge.
Research papers, surveys and descriptions of successful industrial case studies are encouraged on, but not limited
to, the following relevant topics related to RFID-based systems:
 Chipless RFID tags
 Chipless RFID sensors
 Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) sensors
 Low-cost fabrication methods
 Applicative use cases of Chipless RFID
 Time-domain Chipless RFID
 Chipless RFID reading procedures
 Signal processing algorithms
 mm-Wave chipless RFID
 Chipless RFID for authentication
 Chipless RFID readers
 Near-Field Chipless RFID
 THz-ID
 Localization and gesture recognition
 Applications for green technology
 Motion Modulated Chipless RFID

IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification

Special Issue on “News from CRFID meetings”

Important Dates:
• Submission Deadline: December 1, 2023
• Tentative Publication Date (for the Editorial with the list of all accepted papers): March 31, 2024
As soon as the authors of the accepted papers submit the final files, their manuscript will be published on IEEE
Explore as Early Access paper.

This JRFID Special Issue aims to collect the latest advances on RFID technology showed at the following 2023
international conferences sponsored by the Council on Radio Frequency Identification (CRFID):
– 2023 IEEE International Conference on RFID (RFID), June 13-15, 2023, Seattle, Washington, USA
– International Symposium on Advances in RFID Technology and Electromagnetics for IoT – SpliTech 2023, June
20-23, 2023, Island of Brac, Croatia
– IEEE International Conference on RFID —Technology and Applications (RFID-TA), to be held on September 4-6,
2023, Aveiro, Portugal.
The manuscript must be significantly extended beyond the scope of the conference paper in terms of the overall
technical contents and research results (a similarity percent match less than 30% is mandatory)