1cm2 sub-1V Capacitive-Coupled Thin Film ID-Tag using Metal-oxide TFTs on Flexible Substrate

Abstract

In this paper a capacitive coupled radio-frequency identification tag fabricated on flexible thin-film substrate is presented. The antenna of the tag is monolithic integrated “on-chip”. The footprint of the tag is defined by the size of the antenna, 1cm2. The tag operated at 24V applied reader voltage at a frequency of 1MHz. The achieved data transmission speed of the thin-film tag is 5.8kbps. The technology is a unipolar indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO) self-aligned transistor architecture.