Fully-Additive printed electronics on flexible substrates: A Fully-Additive RFID tag

Printed electronics, particularly that printed on flexible substrates, is an emerging technology with gargantuan market potential - the current market is $16.04 billion and is projected to grow to $76.79 billion in a decade. Although the Printed Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is projected to be ubiquitous, there is no fully-functional Printed RFID is yet available at this juncture. In this paper, we describe the challenges of realizing a printed RFID and report our efforts for it realization based our Fully-Additive printing process, including key functional blocks thereof that have been printed, measured and verified. This is the first demonstration of a Fully-Additive printed RFID.