Progress toward development of all-printed RFID tags: Materials, processes, and devices

Vivek Subramanian; Jean M.J. Fréchet; Paul C. Chang; Daniel C. Huang; Josephine B. Lee; Steven E. Molesa; Amanda R. Murphy; David R. Redinger; Steven K. Volkman

doi:10.1109/JPROC.2005.850305

Progress toward development of all-printed RFID tags: Materials, processes, and devices

Vivek Subramanian^*, Jean M.J. Fréchet, Paul C. Chang, Daniel C. Huang, Josephine B. Lee, Steven E. Molesa, Amanda R. Murphy, David R. Redinger, Steven K. Volkman

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1330-1338
Number of pages	9
Journal	Proceedings of the IEEE
Volume	93
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2005.850305
State	Published - 2005
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Organic electronics
Printed electronics
RFID
Thin-film transistor (TFT)

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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