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Date: | 2021 |
Abstract: | In this paper, an organic, fully recyclable and eco-friendly 20-bit inkjet-printed chipless RFID tag is presented. The tag operates in the near field and is implemented by means of chains of resonant elements. The characterization and manufacturing process of the tag, printed with a few layers of a commercial organic ink on conventional paper substrate (DIN A4), are presented, and tag functionality is demonstrated by reading it by means of a custom-designed reader. The tags are read by proximity (through the near field), by displacing them over a resonator-loaded transmission line, and each resonant element (bit) of the tag is interrogated by a harmonic signal tuned to the resonance frequency. The coupling between the reader line and the resonant elements of the tag produce and amplitude modulated (AM) signal containing the identification (ID) code of the tag. |
Grants: | Agencia Estatal de Investigación RTI2018-102070-B-C21 Agencia Estatal de Investigación RTC2019-007226-7 European Commission 801342 Agencia Estatal de Investigación PID2019-103904RB-I00 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-1159 |
Note: | Altres ajuts: Agència per a la Competitivitat de l'Empresa de la Generalitat de Catalunya by FEDER funds, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, and ERDF funds |
Rights: | Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original. |
Language: | Anglès |
Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
Subject: | Chipless RFID ; Organic inks ; Inkjet printing ; Printed electronics ; Secure paper ; Authentication |
Published in: | Applied sciences (Basel), Vol. 11, Num. 17 (August 2021) , art. 7832, ISSN 2076-3417 |
12 p, 1.6 MB |