Title :
Possibilities of 3D direct write dispensing for textile UHF RFID tag manufacturing
Author :
Toni Björninen;Johanna Virkki;Lauri Sydänheimo;Leena Ukkonen
Author_Institution :
Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
fDate :
7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We outline the possibilities of 3D direct write dispensing in the manufacturing of UHF RFID tags on textile materials and present considerations regarding the process parameters to achieve high-performance tags when the antenna is deposited directly on the rough and porous textile material. We also show that it is possible to use the dispensing to form the antenna-microchip connection using conductive ink only in order to simplify the manufacturing process. Our measurement results confirm that the manufactured textile-based RFID tags achieve high performance with the attainable read ranges of 8.5-to-11 meters in air.
Keywords :
"Ink","Antennas","RFID tags","Fabrics","Integrated circuits","Three-dimensional displays"
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 2015 IEEE International Symposium on
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2015.7305047
