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http://dx.doi.org/10.7840/kics.2017.42.4.716

Design of a Full-Printed NFC Tag Using Silver Nano-Paste and Carbon Ink  

Lee, Sang-hwa (Kongju National University Department of Information and Communication Engineering)
Park, Hyun-ho (IT Application Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute)
Choi, Eun-ju (IT Application Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute)
Yoon, Sun-hong (IT Application Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute)
Hong, Ic-pyo (Kongju National University Department of Information and Communication Engineering)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.42, no.4, 2017 , pp. 716-722 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, a fully printed NFC tag operating at 13.56 MHz was designed and fabricated using silver nano-paste and carbon ink. The proposed NFC tag has a printed coil with an inductance of $2.74{\mu}H$ on a PI film for application to an NFC tag IC with an internal capacitance of 50 pF. Screen printing technology used in this paper has advantages such as large area printing for mass production, low cost and eco-friendly process compared to conventional PCB manufacturing process. The proposed structure consists of a circular coil implemented as a single layer using silver nano-paste and carbon ink, a jumper pattern for chip mounting between the outer edge and the center of the coil, and an insulation pattern between the coil and the jumper pattern. In order to verify the performance of the proposed NFC tag, we performed the measurements of the printing line width, thickness, line resistance, adhesion and environmental reliability, and confirmed the suitability of the NFC tag based on the full-printed manufacturing method.
Keywords
Full-printed NFC tag; Screen printing; Silver nano-paste;
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