The effect of conductive ink layer thickness on the functioning of printed UHF RFID antennas

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 98, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1610-1619

  Merilampi, Sari Linnea ^a   Bjorninen, Toni ^a   Vuorimaki, Antti ^a   Ukkonen, Leena ^a   Ruuskanen, Pekka ^a   Sydanheimo, Lauri ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Passive radio frequency identification (RFID); printed electronics; screen printing; ultra high frequency (UHF) RFID tag

Indexed keywords

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MOBILE ANTENNAS; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; RADIO WAVES; SCREEN PRINTING;

ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PRINTED ELECTRONICS; RADIO-FREQUENCY-IDENTIFICATION TAGS (RFID); RFID TAG ANTENNAS; SCREEN PRINTING TECHNIQUE; ULTRA-HIGH FREQUENCY; ULTRAHIGH-FREQUENCY RFID (UHF);

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 77956056136     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2010.2050570     Document Type: Article

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