Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering Brush-painted Silver Nanoparticle UHF RFID Tags on Fabric Substrates
Due to an increasing interest to wearable electronics, versatile electronics manufacturing methods are needed for numerous applications. Brush-painting is a simple and fast additive manufacturing method for electronics, which involves only two process steps: painting and sintering. In our study, passive UHF RFID tag antennas were brush-painted through a stencil on two different fabric substrates by using only one layer of silver nanoparticle ink. According to our measurements, the tags on Fabrics 1 and 2 showed peak read ranges of over 8 meters and of 2 meters, respectively, both on top of the fabric and while embedded between two layers of fabric. The brush-painted tags also showed suitable on-body read ranges. However, the characteristics of the fabric substrate had a significant effect on the tag performance.
Johanna Virkki Toni Bj(o)rninen Lauri Syd(a)nheimo Leena Ukkonen
Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering Tampere University of Technology, P. O. Box 692, FI-33101 Tampere, Finland
国际会议
Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2014(2014年电磁学研究新进展学术研讨会)
广州
英文
2106-2110
2014-08-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）