Developing inkjet printing to enable low cost UHF RFID transfer tattoo tags

Author

Oyeka, D.O. ; Ziai, M. Ali ; Batchelor, John C. ; Parker, Edward A. ; Sanchez-Romaguera, Veronica ; Yeates, Stephen G.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng. & Digital Arts, Univ. of Kent, Canterbury, UK

fYear

2013

fDate

7-13 July 2013

Firstpage

1726

Lastpage

1727

Abstract

This paper demonstrates the use of inkjet printing as a digital fabrication tool for the cost effective manufacture of radio frequency identification (RFID tags on low-cost flexible and porous substrates. The design presented in this work is a thin, substrate tolerant UHF RFID tag that can be mounted directly onto the skin surface in the form of a transfer patch in the same way that a temporary tattoo is applied.

Keywords

ink jet printing; radiofrequency identification; digital fabrication tool; inkjet printing; low cost UHF RFID transfer tattoo tags; porous substrates; radio frequency identification; substrate tolerant UHF RFID tag; temporary tattoo; transfer patch; Curing; Ink; Printing; Radiofrequency identification; Skin; Substrates; Tagging; “green” electronic; RFID; conductive ink; flexible/stretchable electronics; frequency selective surfaces; inkjet printing; porous substrates; temperature and chemical sensitive substrates; wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5315-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2013.6711522

Filename

6711522