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This book presents a step-by-step discussion of the design and development of radio frequency identification (RFID) and RFID-enabled sensors on flexible low cost substrates for UHF frequency bands. Various examples of fully function building blocks (design and fabrication of antennas, integration with ICs and microcontrollers, power sources, as well as inkjet-printing techniques) demonstrate the revolutionary effect of this approach in low cost RFID and RFID-enabled sensors fields. This approach could be easily extended to other microwave and wireless applications as well. The first chapter describes the basic functionality and the physical and IT-related principles underlying RFID and sensors technology. Chapter two explains in detail inkjet-printing technology providing the characterization of the conductive ink, which consists of nano-silver-particles, while highlighting the importance of this technology as a fast and simple fabrication technique especially on flexible organic substrates such as Liquid Crystal Polymer (LCP) or paper-based substrates. Chapter three demonstrates several compact inkjet-printed UHF RFID antennas using antenna matching techniques to match IC's complex impedance as prototypes to provide the proof of concept of this technology. Chapter four discusses the benefits of using conformal magnetic material as a substrate for miniaturized high-frequency circuit applications. In addition, in Chapter five, the authors also touch up the state-of-the-art area of fully-integrated wireless sensor modules on organic substrates and show the first ever 2D sensor integration with an RFID tag module on paper, as well as the possibility of 3D multilayer paper-based RF/microwave structures. Table of Contents: Radio Frequency Identification Introduction / Flexible Organic Low Cost Substrates / Benchmarking RFID Prototypes on Organic Substrates / Conformal Magnetic Composite RFID Tags / Inkjet-Printed RFID-Enabled Sensors
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Design and Development of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and RFID-Enabled Sensors on Flexible Low Cost Substrates Synthesis Lectures on RF/Microwaves Editor Amir Mortazawi, University of Michigan Design and Development of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and RFID-Enabled Sensors on Flexible Low Cost Substrates Li Yang, Amin Rida, and Manos M. Tentzeris 2009 Copyright © 2009 by Morgan & Claypool All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Design and Development of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and RFID-Enabled Sensors on Flexible Low Cost Substrates Li Yang, Amin Rida, and Manos M. Tentzeris www.morganclaypool.com ISBN: 9781598298604 ISBN: 9781598298611 paperback ebook DOI 10.2200/S00172ED1V01Y200905MRF001 A Publication in the Morgan & Claypool Publishers series Synthesis Lectures on RF/Microwaves Lecture #1 Series Editor: Amir Mortazawi, University of Michigan Series ISSN Synthesis Lectures on RF/Microwaves ISSN pending. Design and Development of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and RFID-Enabled Sensors on Flexible Low Cost Substrates Li Yang, Amin Rida, and Manos M. Tentzeris Georgia Institute of Technology SYNTHESIS LECTURES ON RF/MICROWAVES #1 M &C Morgan & cLaypool publishers ABSTRACT This book presents a step-by-step discussion of the Design and Development of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and RFID-enabled Sensors on Flexible Low Cost Substrates for the UHF Frequency bands. Various examples of fully function building blocks (design and fabrication of antennas, integration with ICs