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Environmentally Friendly, Semi-transparent, Screen Printed Antenna for RFID Tag Applications

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Wireless communication employing radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags is progressively more widespread in a variety of industrial and commercial sectors. Aspects as demanding specific needs regarding reading distance, production cost, and processability are requested for commercial applications. Nowadays, printing of optical barcodes is the most economically technology for short distance (up to ~30 cm) reading applications. However, the large-scale and low-cost printing of RFID tags would be a competitive alternative to barcode technology because it allows quicker identification with much less reading errors. Here we demonstrate a semi-transparent, screen printed RFID antennas using a non-metallic and environmentally friendly conductive paste. The variation of the film thickness (from 2.5 up to 15 µm) permitted the fabrication of antennas with reading range (0.84–3.29 m), sheet resistance (6.2–36 Ω/sq), and optical transmittance (0–32.3%), which are compatible to commercial or industrial applications aiming short to moderate reading distances.

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This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior—Brasil (CAPES)—Finance Code 001 and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico—Brasil (CNPq), grants 300370/2017-2 and 300718/2019-5.

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  1. Indústria de Tintas Condutivas TICON, Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil

    Alisson Henrique Ferreira Marques, Elson dos Santos, Henry Fellegara & Tiago Carneiro Gomes

  2. Flextronics Instituto de Tecnologia (FIT), Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil

    Matheus Henrique Quadros, Pedro Henrique Pereira Rebello, Vinícius Lourenço Dias Ferro & Paula Valério

  3. Institute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences, Department of Physics, São Paulo State University (Unesp), São Paulo, Rio Claro, Brazil

    Danilo dos Santos, Kayo de Oliveira Vieira, Lucas Fugikawa-Santos, Tiago Carneiro Gomes & Giovani Gozzi

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Marques, A.H.F., dos Santos, D., de Oliveira Vieira, K. et al. Environmentally Friendly, Semi-transparent, Screen Printed Antenna for RFID Tag Applications. Braz J Phys 51, 434–438 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13538-021-00892-w

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