Fabrication and reliability evaluation of passive UHF RFID T-shirts

X. Chen; H. He; L. Ukkonen; J. Virkki; Y. Lu; H. Lam

doi:10.1109/IWAT.2018.8379146

Fabrication and reliability evaluation of passive UHF RFID T-shirts

X. Chen
, H. He
, L. Ukkonen
, J. Virkki
, Y. Lu
, H. Lam

Department of Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

In this paper, we present textile antennas fabricated for T-shirt RFID applications by cutting from commercially available electro-textile, by sewing with conductive thread, and by 3D printing with stretchable silver ink on a 100 % cotton fabric. The ready tags with attached ICs are coated with a protective stretchable encapsulant. The wireless performance of the T-shirt tags is evaluated initially as well as after seven washing cycles, followed by nine washing-drying cycles in a household washing and drying machines. The initial read ranges of all kinds of tags, when measured on-body, are around 3.5 meters. Based on the reliability testing results, the coating effectively protects the components from cyclic washing and drying.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT2018) - Proceedings
Publisher	IEEE
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-5386-1851-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IWAT.2018.8379146
Publication status	Published - Mar 2018
Event	14th IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology, iWAT2018 - Jinling Hotel, Nanjing, China Duration: 5 Mar 2018 → 7 Mar 2018

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Conference	14th IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology, iWAT2018
Place	China
City	Nanjing
Period	5/03/18 → 7/03/18

Research Keywords

3D Printing
electro-textiles
embroidery
passive UHF RFID
T-shirts
textiles
washing
wearable electronics

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