The article in hand deals with a new approach regarding the technique of miniaturization and the improvement of antennas done by the incorporation of metamaterials. Such an approach is manifested into two different structures of metamaterial antennas, which are implemented for the radio frequency identification technology in the UHF range. The left‐hand metamaterials are presented first by the conventional split ring resonators (SRRs) and second by a new structure proposed of a SRR Toothed. The parameters considered in this work are the resonant frequency, return loss, bandwidth, radiation pattern, gain and the electromagnetic field, and the current delivered by the proposed antenna. All simulation results are done by CST software. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 56:2899–2903, 2014