This article represents amalgamation of three matching techniques i.e. Meandered Inductively-coupled loop (MIL), T-matching network and Nested slot, in the interest of outlining a planar UHF RFID tag antenna. The tag antenna has volume of 76 mm \(\times\) 30 mm \(\times\) 1.6 mm (0.228 \(\lambda _{0}\times\) 0.0902 \(\lambda _{0}\times\) 0.0048 \(\lambda _{0})\) . This compact planar structure of tendered antenna can decrease mass production cost of tags in comparison with non-planar tag antennas. Moreover, the slot based T-matching and MIL network rotation, can be tuned in wide-range for impedance matching. The tendered tag design is simulated using Ansys HFSS-2020R1 and fabricated. The simulated and measured return loss at 902 MHz are -16.8 and -21 dB, respectively. The presented tag antenna exhibits 37% of radiation efficiency with realized gain of 1.03 dBi. This compact planar tag antenna extends its read range upto 14.1m.
