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In this paper, inkjet-printed flexible antennas fabricated on paper substrates are introduced as a system-level solution for ultra-low-cost mass production of UHF Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tags and Wireless Sensor Nodes (WSN) in an approach that could be easily extended to other microwave and wireless applications. A compact inkjet-printed UHF “passive-RFID” antenna using the classic T-match approach and designed to match IC’s complex impedance, is presented as a demonstrating prototype for this technology. In addition, the authors briefly touch up the state-of-the-art area of fully-integrated wireless sensor modules on paper and show the first ever 2D sensor integration with an RFID tag module on paper, as well as the possibility of a 3D multilayer paper-based RF/microwave structures.
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Tentzeris, M.M., Yang, L., Rida, A., Vyas, R., Traille, A., Kruessi, C. (2008). Conductive Inkjet-Printed Wireless Sensor Nodes on Flexible Low-Cost Paper-Based Substrates. In: Balandin, S., Moltchanov, D., Koucheryavy, Y. (eds) Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking. NEW2AN 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5174. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85500-2_30
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