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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Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from North Carolina State University in 2011, and M.S. in mechanical engineering from Tsinghua University in 2007. He is currently the assistant professor in Department of Industrial Engineering at University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA, with primary research focused on design of additive manufacturing and lightweight structure designs. Between 2012 and 2013, he worked as testing engineer in B/E Aerospace, and took primary responsibilities of the establishment and daily operation of the life cycle testing group. He is the recipient of 2016 International Outstanding Young Researcher in Freeform and Additive Manufacturing (FAME Junior) Award, the 2012 Emerald Engineering Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in Additive Manufacturing, and 2007 3rd Grade Scholarship of Excellency in Tsinghua University. Dr. Yang is a member of IIE, SME, SAMPE, ACerS, and TMS. He is also a member of Alpha Pi Mu (Industrial Engineering). Dr. Hsu received his Ph.D in Mechanical Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009. Since then he has devoted his professional life to research, teaching, and engineering consulting. More than 30 peer-reviewed journal publications has resulted from his research work which revolves around advanced manufacturing at multiple scales in both top-down and bottom-up approaches. He has 8 years of directing additive manufacturing research laboratories including the Ford Rapid Prototyping Lab at the University of Illinois, and the Advanced Multi-scale Manufacturing Lab within the Manufacturing Research and Innovation Hub at ASU. He is a member of SME. Dr. Nanu Menon received his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Vanderbilt University. This was followed by a post-doc appointment at USC before proceeding to work at WPAFB, Dayton, OH as a National Research Council Fellow. Since then, he has worked at Westinghouse Hanford, Richland, WA. and GE Aircraft Engines at Evendale before coming to work at Garrett in Phoenix in 1981. At Garrett/Allied Signal/Honeywell, he has been working in the Life Methods Group for the past 32 years, characterizing alloys, creating mechanical property, fatigue and creep rate models, developing life prediction codes, and establishing fractographic knowledge useful in failure analysis. Dr. Soeren Wiener is the Director of Technology and Advanced Operations at Honeywell Aerospace, where he oversees the development and deployment of game-changing manufacturing technologies into the global supply chain. Dr. Wiener earned a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University (TH) in Karlsruhe, Germany with an emphasis on production technology and computer aided design. After joining AlliedSignal (later Honeywell) he earned his Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University in Dresden, Germany as an external candidate with an emphasis on closed-loop systems for design, manufacturing, and inspection of highly stressed aerospace components. Prior to his current role with Honeywell, Dr. Wiener was Director of Quality in Mechanical Repair and Overhaul. Additionally, he led manufacturing engineering, customer quality and turbine engine overhaul organizations. He began his career as a design engineer specializing in gear and coupling designs. Dr. Wiener is currently focused on achieving full-scale production of FAA-certified engine hardware using metal 3D printing and other novel manufacturing processes. Dr. Francisco Medina PhD, is the Technology Leader for additive manufacturing at EWI. Previously, he was a senior specialist in materials development at Arcam where he managed Arcam's relationships and R&D activities in North America. Medina received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 2000, a master's degree in 2005 and a doctorate in materials science in 2013, all from the University of Texas at El Paso. He h

Inhalt
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.