Feasibility study of a fully organic, CNT based, harmonic RFID gas sensor

Author

Baccarelli, R. ; Orecchini, G. ; Alimenti, F. ; Roselli, Luca

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Univ. of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

5-7 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

419

Lastpage

422

Abstract

This paper presents a feasibility study of a fully organic RFID gas sensor, realized by combining CNT deposition with inkjet printing on paper, able to achieve performance of interest for emerging applications in the field of Internet of Things (IoT) and Large Area Electronics (LAE). The advancement with respect to the state of the art is made possible by adopting a more sophisticated yet simple and innovative architecture implementing a Wheatstone bridge on a harmonic tag. Tremendous margins for sensitivity improvement are demonstrated while keeping the beauty of a fully organic, autonomous and chipless realization.

Keywords

Internet; carbon nanotubes; computerised instrumentation; gas sensors; ink jet printing; radiofrequency identification; C; CNT deposition; Internet of Things; IoT; LAE; Wheatstone bridge; fully organic harmonic RFID gas sensor; inkjet paper printing; large area electronics; Bridge circuits; Gas detectors; Harmonic analysis; Impedance; Power system harmonics; Radiofrequency identification; Resistors; Carbon nanotube composites; IoT; LAE; RF passives; RFID; RFID enabled sensor; UHF; chipless RFID; gas sensing; harmonic tags; inkjet printing; organic electronics; wireless sensor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nice

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4656-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-4658-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404559

Filename

6404559