A fully printed passive chipless RFID tag for low-cost mass production
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Nair, Raji; Barahona, Marvin; Betancourt, Diego; Schmidt, Georg; Bellmann, Maxi; Hoft, Daniel; Plettemeier, Dirk; Hubler, Arved; Ellinger, Frank
- Source
- The 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2014) Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2014 8th European Conference on. :2950-2954 Apr, 2014
- Subject
- Aerospace
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Radiofrequency identification
Printing
Resonant frequency
Substrates
Antenna measurements
Encoding
Mass production
chipless
screen-printing
RFID
backscattering
RCS
frequency shift encoding
- Language
- ISSN
- 2164-3342
In this paper a 3 bit chipless RFID tag able to be printed using mass production techniques is introduced. The structure proposed is based on dipole like structures and three of such dipoles conforms a tag. Several chipless RFID tag prototypes were fabricated on PET substrate and measured within the frequency band from 2 GHz to 5 GHz. In contrast to the already reported printed tags where inkjet printing is used, the proposed tag is fabricated using screen printing techniques which enable fast mass production of tags in a very short time with thick conductive tracks of ∼10 um. A good agreement between simulation and measurement was obtained and a reading distance up to 1 m is obtained with a transmission power of 3 dBm. The obtained results confirm the use of low cost printed tags for mass market applications.