German PolyIC produces 13MHz wireless tags

Germany's PolyIC GmbH & Co.KG has developed wireless tags produced using print and roll-to-roll technology, and held at the "Organic Electronics Conference and Exhibition 2006 (OEC-06)" in Frankfurt, Germany. Technical publication. This is the first time in the world that organic electronic products have been manufactured using a combination of print and roll-to-roll technology. Integrated 8-bit ROM for data saving. It is planned to launch a wireless tag in 2007 to identify whether a product is a counterfeit product. With regard to manufacturing costs, the company stated that "it is not convenient at this time to elaborate, but it has the potential to be cheaper than existing wireless tags using silicon materials".

In addition to the antenna section, organic materials are used in wireless circuits, power circuits, logic circuits, and memory circuits. Hundreds of organic transistors are integrated. In 2005, the company released a 13.56 MHz wireless tag that was printed using organic materials, but at the time it used a film-shaped plastic base plate. This time, a roll-to-roll plastic base plate was used to print a wireless tag circuit in a roll-to-roll manner like a printed poster. This roll-shaped plastic base plate has been embedded in the copper antenna used by existing wireless tags. Circuit fabrication can use a variety of printing technologies other than inkjet technology. The company said that it did not use ink jet technology because of its slow printing speed and its lower workload than other printing technologies.

Source: Nikkei BP