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A Selective Ink Deposition Method for the Cost-Performance Optimization of Inkjet-Printed UHF RFID Tag Antennas

Published:2012 Issue: Volume:2012 Page:1-9
ISSN:1687-5869
Container-title:International Journal of Antennas and Propagation
language:en
Short-container-title:International Journal of Antennas and Propagation

Author:

Virtanen J.¹,Virkki J.¹,Elsherbeni A. Z.²,Sydänheimo L.¹,Ukkonen L.¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Electronics, Rauma Research Unit, Tampere University of Technology, 33720 Tampere, Finland

2. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677, USA

Abstract

A selective ink deposition method is proposed for fabricating inkjet-printed passive UHF RFID tag antennas with optimized cost-performance ratios. The deposition method is based on identifying areas with high surface current densities on a given tag antenna and applying additional silver nanoparticle ink onto such areas to increase tag read range. In this paper, the proposed method is experimentally verified by utilizing the method on a small dipole tag antenna. Several ink deposition schemes are created, and their read range performances and ink consumptions are presented.

Funder

Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation

Publisher

Hindawi Limited

Subject

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Link

http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/ijap/2012/801014.pdf

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