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RFID Remains a Strong Opportunity for PE

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

One of the key opportunities for printed electronics (PE) can be found in the field of RFID, or radio frequency identification. RFID is essentially a small chip and antenna system that provides information to a scanner. They can either have batteries, which allows it to store data, or simply use the scanner itself to supply the energy to activate the tag. RFID is finding uses in numerous areas, particularly in inventory control, smart cards and packaging, luggage tags, livestock, passports an...

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