Trends in Printed RFID

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In 2009, the RFID market grew to US$5.56 billion, having almost tripled in five years. Being largely based on government backed military, identity card, financial card, passport and other projects and legally mandated requirements such as animal tagging, this market is recession proof, continuing to grow rapidly. Of the total, US$2.18 billion consisted of passive tags, the prime candidate for being printed in future. First to market with entirely printed transistor-based RFID was Kovio’s with a tag consisting of about 1,000 nanosilicon transistors printed by inkjet on a flexible substrate of stainless steel foil. ...cont´d

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