Chipless RFID tags fabricated by fully printing of metallic inks 完全印刷金属油墨制作的无芯片射频识别标签.pdf

Ann. Telecommun. (2013) 68:401–413 DOI 10.1007/s12243-013-0378-3 Chipless RFID tags fabricated by fully printing of metallic inks Botao Shao Qiang Chen Yasar Amin Ran Liu Li-Rong Zheng Received: 20 June 2012 /Accepted: 24 May 2013 /Published online: 22 June 2013 # Institut Mines-Télécom and Springer-Verlag France 2013 Abstract This paper reviews recent advances in fully research topics towards item-level tracking applications of printed chipless radio frequency identification (RFID) tech- chipless RFID tags. nology with special concern on the discussion of coding theories, ID generating circuits, and tag antennas. Two types Keywords Chipless RFID . Fully printing . Frequency of chipless tags, one based on time-domain reflections and resonance . LC tank . Linearly tapering . Paper substrate . the other based on frequency domain signatures, are intro- Time-domain reflections duced. To enable a fully printed encoding circuit, linearly tapering technique is adopted in the first type of tags to cope with parasitic resistances of printed conductors. Both simu- 1 Introduction lation and measurement efforts are made to verify the feasi- bility of the eight-bit fully printed paper-based tag. In the Radio frequency Identification (RFID) technique is the use second type of tags, a group of LC tanks are exploited for of radio frequency signals for access of information on the encoding data in frequency domain with their resonances. tags attached on objects. RFID system consists of two main The field measurements of the proof-of-concept of the tag hardware components: a transponder/tag containing a se- produced by toner-transferring process and flexible printed quence of electronic codes used for identification of an circuit boards are provided to validate the pr