An Integrated 13.56-MHz RFID Tag in a Printed Organic Complementary TFT Technology on Flexible Substrate

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An integrated 13.56-MHz RFID tag in a printed organic complementary TFT technology on flexible substrateFiore, V.; Battiato, P.; Abdinia, S.; Jacobs, S.; Chartier, I.; Coppard, R.; Klink, G.; Cantatore, E.; Ragonese, E.; Palmisano, G. Document VersionAccepted manuscript including changes made at the peer-review stage Please check the document version of this publication:• A submitted manuscript is the author's version of the article upon submission and before peer-review. There can be important differences between the submitted version and the official published version of record. People interested in the research are advised to contact the author for the final version of the publication, or visit the DOI to the publisher's website.• The final author version and the galley proof are versions of the publication after peer review.• The final published version features the final layout of the paper including the volume, issue and page numbers. Link to publication Citation for published version (APA):Fiore, V., Battiato, P., Abdinia, S., Jacobs, S., Chartier, I., Coppard, R., ... Palmisano, G. (2015). An integrated 13.56-MHz RFID tag in a printed organic complementary TFT technology on flexible substrate. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 62(6), 1668-1677. [7108060]. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2015 General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.• Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.• You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policyIf you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.Download date: 12. May. 2018 TCAS-I 1611Abstract-This paper presents the first printed organic 13-MHz RFID on flexible substrate. The proposed solution includes a planar near field antenna bonded to an RFID tag, which is printed on flexible foil using an organic complementary TFT technology. Thanks to an active envelope detector, ASK modulation with modulation depth as low as 20% can be adopted to increase the available input power for the rectifier. The RFID functionality is demonstrated at the internally generated supply voltage of 24 V, for a reading range of 2-5 cm and a bit-rate up to 50 bit/s. With more than 250 transistors on the same foil, this work represents the most complex circuit ever published in a printed organic complementary TFT technology.Index Terms-ASK modulation, active detection, mixed analog-digital circuits modulation index, organic circuits, pentacene, polyimide, radio frequency identification, sub...

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