Printing RFIDs on Paper at Fraction of Cost of Regular RFIDs

February 16th, 2012

Via: University of Montpellier Press Release:

Now, researchers in France have developed a way to deposit a thin aluminum RFID tag on to paper that not only reduces the amount of metal needed for the tag, and so the cost, but could open up RFID tagging to many more systems, even allowing a single printed sheet or flyer to be tagged.

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There are several techniques used to deposit an antenna on PET: etching, electroplating; and on paper: screen printing, flexography and offset lithography. Now, Camille Ramade and colleagues at the University of Montpellier have demonstrated how a simple thermal evaporation process can deposit an aluminum coil antenna on to paper for use as an RFID tag. Aluminum is a lot less expensive than copper or silver, which are used in some types of RFID tag. The researchers suggest that the approach would reduce the cost of RFID tagging to a fifth of current prices, which could represent significant savings for inventory users operating millions of RFID tags in their systems.

Research Credit: bretwalda

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One Response to “Printing RFIDs on Paper at Fraction of Cost of Regular RFIDs”

  1. tochigi says:
    February 16, 2012 at 10:21 am

    there are a lot of companies trying to commercialise printed RFID technology. probably up to a dozen in Japan alone.

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