Progress Toward Development of All-Printed RFID Tags: Materials, Processes, and Devices
Subramanian, V.
Frechet, J.M.J.
Chang, P.C.
Huang, D.C.
Lee, J.B.
Molesa, S.E.
Murphy, A.R.
Redinger, D.R.
Volkman, S.K.
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, USA;
This paper appears in: Proceedings of the IEEE
Publication Date: July 2005
Volume: 93,
Issue: 7
On page(s): 1330-1338
ISSN: 0018-9219
INSPEC Accession Number: 8604047
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/JPROC.2005.850305
Current Version Published: 2005-07-05
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Printed electronics provides a promising potential pathway toward the realization of ultralow-cost RFID tags for item-level tracking of consumer goods. Here, we report on our progress in developing materials, processes, and devices for the realization of ultralow-cost printed RFID tags. Using printed nanoparticle patterns that are subsequently sintered at plastic-compatible temperatures, low-resistance interconnects and passive components have been realized. Simultaneously, printed transistors with mobilities >10-1 cm2/V-s have been realized using novel pentacene and oligothiophene precursors for pMOS and ZnO nanoparticles for nMOS. AC performance of these devices is adequate for 135-kHz RFID, though significant work remains to be done to achieve 13.56-MHz operation.
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