Brush-painting and photonical sintering of copper and silver inks on cotton fabric to form antennas for wearable ultra-high-frequency radio-frequency identification tags

Jun Liu; Jianhua Wang; Johanna Virkki; Toni Björninen; Lauri Sydänheimo; Lianglun Cheng; Leena Ukkonen

doi:10.1177/0040517515596969

Brush-painting and photonical sintering of copper and silver inks on cotton fabric to form antennas for wearable ultra-high-frequency radio-frequency identification tags

Jun Liu, Jianhua Wang, Johanna Virkki, Toni Björninen, Lauri Sydänheimo, Lianglun Cheng, Leena Ukkonen

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Additive deposition of inks with metallic inclusions provides compelling means to embed electronics into clothing in a seamless way. We present a simple single-step brush-painting method for depositing copper and silver inks directly on ordinary cotton fabric and discuss the optimization of the photonical sintering of both materials. For the first time, we demonstrate the deposition and sintering of copper oxide ink on fabric achieving high electrical conductivity suitable for radio-frequency electronics. The results from wireless testing confirmed that the radio-frequency identification tags based on the copper and silver ink antennas were readable from 6 and 10 m, respectively.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1616-1624
Journal	Textile Research Journal
Volume	86
Issue number	15
Early online date	2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0040517515596969
Publication status	Published - 2016
Publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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Brush-painting and photonical sintering of copper and silver inks on cotton fabric to form antennas for wearable ultra-high-frequency radio-frequency identification tags. / Liu, Jun; Wang, Jianhua; Virkki, Johanna et al.
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