Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)2106-2110
Abstract
Due to an increasing interest to wearable electronics, versatile electronics manu-
facturing 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.
Citation
Lauri Sydänheimo,
Leena Ukkonen,
Toni Bjorninen,
and
Johanna Virkki,
"Brush-painted Silver Nanoparticle UHF RFID Tags on Fabric Substrates," Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)2106-2110