Affordable Ink-Jet Printed Antennas for RFID Applications

Pranonsatit, S.; Worasawate, Denchai; Sritanavut, P.

doi:10.1109/tcpmt.2012.2186571

Cited by 20 publications

(12 citation statements)

References 21 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The critical parameter, which determines the performance of an RFID tag antenna, is the read range (Pranonsatit et al, 2012). The effective isotropic radiated power referenced for both the RFID reader and reader antenna, or equivalent isotropically radiated power (EIRP), is set to 3.2 W and 4 W, according to European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) RFID standards, respectively.…”

Section: Field and Circuit Concepts Parametric Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Electromagnetic Analysis of Radio Frequency Identification Antennas for Green Electronics

et al. 2013

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article demonstrates in-depth electromagnetic analysis of a radio frequency identification tag antenna manufactured by inkjet printing technology on different paper substrates to achieve ultra-low cost flexible radio frequency identification tags using a novel hole-matching technique for reducing the consumption of substrate material, and conductive ink. Nevertheless, the electromagnetic properties of the paper substrate are vulnerable to various environmental effects. Thus, the proposed antenna design is optimized for consistent wideband performance throughout the complete UHF radio frequency identification band (860-960 MHz) while presenting a greater degree of material insensitivity. An advanced antenna design methodological analysis is performed to accomplish an extended read range, while exhibiting benchmarking results when across cardboard cartons filled with metal or water containing objects.

show abstract

Section: Field and Circuit Concepts Parametric Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Electromagnetic Analysis of Radio Frequency Identification Antennas for Green Electronics

et al. 2013

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…More specifically in the case of radiating elements, different approaches to implementing antennas on flexible substrates have been explored, such as the use of liquid metals for 2D [11] and 3D [12] antennas, the use of flexible microwave grade substrates with conventional machine milling techniques to implement conformal antennas [13,14,15], the use of textile substrates [16] or the use of conductive fibers [17]. Radiating elements can also be implemented by making use of the deposition of conductive/functional inks and pastes, using inkjet approaches, in which silver or silver chloride inks are employed owing to the balance between high conductivity, deposition feasibility and certain biocompatibility [18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26]. Radiating elements have been implemented using inkjet techniques for low cost Radio Frequency Identification RFID applications on paper substrates [19,20], flexible plastic substrates such as Kapton [21], radiating elements over ultra-thin substrates [22], complex radiating elements based on fractal patterns [23], millimeter wave flexible antennas [24] or volumetric antennas and lenses based on the inkjet fabrication process.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Implementation of Radiating Elements for Radiofrequency Front-Ends by Screen-Printing Techniques for Internet of Things Applications

Picallo

Klaina

López-Iturri

et al. 2019

Sensors

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to embedding wireless transceivers into a wide range of devices, in order to implement context-aware scenarios, in which a massive amount of transceivers is foreseen. In this framework, cost-effective electronic and Radio Frequency (RF) front-end integration is desirable, in order to enable straightforward inclusion of communication capabilities within objects and devices in general. In this work, flexible antenna prototypes, based on screen-printing techniques, with conductive inks on flexible low-cost plastic substrates is proposed. Different parameters such as substrate/ink characteristics are considered, as well as variations in fabrication process or substrate angular deflection in device performance. Simulation and measurement results are presented, as well as system validation results in a real test environment in wireless sensor network communications. The results show the feasibility of using screen-printing antenna elements on flexible low-cost substrates, which can be embedded in a wide array of IoT scenarios.

show abstract

“…Printed RFID tags are simpler, more economical, and more environmental friendly to produce than RFID tags fabricated by the traditional copper-etching process [1,2]. By utilizing a low-cost printing technique such as inkjet printing or screen printing, a printed RFID tag antenna of a desirable planar structure can be economically formed such that conductive ink is only printed on the intended areas and no ink is wasted in the unused nonconductive areas [3][4][5][6][7].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To examine the quality of impedance matching between the fabricated tag antennas and the employed RFID chip, the measured S 11 results are derived from the measured antenna impedance results and the measured chip impedance results using equation (2). The calculated S 11 results are derived from the calculated antenna impedance results and the defined chip impedance data.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

An optimized ink-reducing hollowed-out arm meander dipole antenna structure for printed RFID tags

Marindra

Pongpaibool

Wallada

et al. 2016

Int. J. Microw. Wireless Technol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

An optimized ink-reducing hollowed-out arm meander dipole antenna structure for printed RFID tags adi m. j. marindra, pornanong pongpaibool, werayuth wallada and siwaruk siwamogsatham This paper presents an optimized ink-reducing meander dipole antenna structure suitable for implementing printed radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. The proposed antenna designs contain empty ink-reducing hollowed-out areas along the antenna's arms such that the resulting antennas require much less conductive ink to produce yet still achieve decent antenna performance compared with the conventional solid-arm dipole antennas. The simulation results demonstrate that when the ratio between the width of the hollowed-out areas and the width of the antenna arms is about 0.6, the resulting RFID tag experiences a slight read range performance degradation of ,10%, while it offers a sizeable ink consumption reduction of almost 50%.

show abstract

Affordable Ink-Jet Printed Antennas for RFID Applications

Cited by 20 publications

References 21 publications

Electromagnetic Analysis of Radio Frequency Identification Antennas for Green Electronics

Electromagnetic Analysis of Radio Frequency Identification Antennas for Green Electronics

Implementation of Radiating Elements for Radiofrequency Front-Ends by Screen-Printing Techniques for Internet of Things Applications

An optimized ink-reducing hollowed-out arm meander dipole antenna structure for printed RFID tags

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About