Possibilities of Fabricating Copper-based RFID Tags with Photonic-sintered Inkjet Printing and Thermal Transfer Printing

Muhammad Rizwan; Ajith Adhur Kutty; Monageng Kgwadi; Timothy D. Drysdale; Lauri Sydänheimo; Leena Ukkonen; Johanna Virkki

doi:10.1109/LAWP.2017.2682319

Possibilities of Fabricating Copper-based RFID Tags with Photonic-sintered Inkjet Printing and Thermal Transfer Printing

Muhammad Rizwan, Ajith Adhur Kutty, Monageng Kgwadi, Timothy D. Drysdale, Lauri Sydänheimo, Leena Ukkonen, Johanna Virkki

School of Engineering

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This letter studies the possibilities of manufacturing copper-based passive UHF RFID tags using inkjet and thermal printing on two substrate materials, polyimide (Kapton) and a polyester based substrate (Flexcon THERMLfilm). Both printing methods are tested to fabricate different tag designs, and the performance of successfully printed tags is evaluated using wireless measurements. Measurement results show that both the printing methods, while using copper material, can be used to effectively fabricate passive UHF RFID tag antennas on selected substrates.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1828-1831
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Volume	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2017.2682319
Publication status	Published - 15 Mar 2017

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

copper
inkjet printing
Kapton
photonic sintering
RFID
THERMLfilm
thermal printing

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Possibilities of Fabricating Copper-based RFID Tags with Photonic-sintered Inkjet Printing and Thermal Transfer Printing

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