TY - JFULL AU - Ibrahim S. Alnomay and Jihad Y. Alhammad PY - 2011/9/ TI - A Microstrip Antenna Design and Performance Analysis for RFID High Bit Rate Applications T2 - International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering SP - 935 EP - 939 VL - 5 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10059 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 56, 2011 N2 - Lately, an interest has grown greatly in the usages of RFID in an un-presidential applications. It is shown in the adaptation of major software companies such as Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle the RFID capabilities in their major software products. For example Microsoft SharePoints 2010 workflow is now fully compatible with RFID platform. In addition, Microsoft BizTalk server is also capable of all RFID sensors data acquisition. This will lead to applications that required high bit rate, long range and a multimedia content in nature. Higher frequencies of operation have been designated for RFID tags, among them are the 2.45 and 5.8 GHz. The higher the frequency means higher range, and higher bit rate, but the drawback is the greater cost. In this paper we present a single layer, low profile patch antenna operates at 5.8 GHz with pure resistive input impedance of 50 and close to directive radiation. Also, we propose a modification to the design in order to improve the operation band width from 8.7 to 13.8 ER -