OrganicID™, part of the Weyerhauser forestry products group, has successfully printed a simplified CMOS RFID device that includes much of the critical circuitry needed for an EPC-compatible device.
It uses traditional horizontal FET geometry and operates at the world's favourite RFID frequency 13.56MHz "HF" as used in smart cards, tickets, library book labels, passports, laundry tags and many other applications. The design of this more extensive, fully EPC-compatible RFID tag that was produced before by this company, includes electrically programmable non-volatile memory, and it is expected to be optimised shortly. Date for commercialisation is not yet released.
The OrganicID RFID tag is expected to be usable with currently available high-frequency RFID hardware in the marketplace. Initial plans for the printed electronics technology platform will focus on the high-volume, item-level RFID market, with a secondary focus on future low-cost printed circuitry. The company's research indicates the technology can also be used for smart sensors and biometric products.
OrganicID's proprietary technology is supported by several U.S. and foreign patents and patent applications. This technology is used to generate a low-cost 13.56 MHz RFID tag for use in tracking items through manufacturing and shipping. The OrganicID platform represents an advance in the technology used to create organic item-level RFID tags. However, it is not clear whether it employs the thousands of transistors necessary to ensure the functionality of the Kovio printed HF RFID that will first be launched in smart tickets. This is inorganic technology consisting of ink jet printed silicon nanoparticles.
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