Development of all-organic antenna printed for passive UHF RFID application

Author

Rebello, Pedro ; Costa, Luiz ; Ferro, Vinicius

Author_Institution

RFID CoE (Center of Excellence), Flextronics Inst. of Technol. - FIT, Sorocaba, Brazil

fYear

2014

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

60

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present a flexible conductive polymer antenna for passive UHF RFID using the inkjet printing technology. This all-organic antenna was used to assembly a RFID tag using the Alien Technology IC for UHF application in a strap package. Simulations were performed using the simulation software CST and their results were compared with the measurements, which were performed using an UHF TEM Cell and an UHF RFID reader. This article shows that the all-organic antenna can be functional and can be read by a UHF RFID Reader available on the market. These conductive polymer antennas are compared to antennas with the same design manufactured using a FR-4 and Copper.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; conducting polymers; ink jet printing; microstrip antennas; radiofrequency identification; Alien Technology IC; RFID tag; UHF RFID reader; UHF TEM Cell; UHF application; all-organic antenna; flexible conductive polymer antenna; inkjet printing technology; passive UHF RFID; strap package; Antennas; Manufacturing; Polymers; Radiofrequency identification; Software; Thickness measurement; UHF measurements; Conductive Polymer; Inkjet Printing; radio frequency identification (RFID); ultrahigh frequency (UHF);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Brasil RFID, 2014 IEEE

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7045-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BrasilRFID.2014.7128966

Filename

7128966