A New Concept in Passive RFID Vapour Sensors

Radislav Potyrailo is a Principal Scientist and Project Leader in General Electric Global Research Center in Niskayuna, NY and an Adjunct Industrial Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. He received an Engineering Degree in Optoelectronic Instrumentation from Kiev Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine in 1985. After holding a Visiting Scientist position at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, he received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN in 1998. His research is focused on development of new sensing platforms, sensing materials, and microanalytical instrumentation. He has over 50 issued US Patents, co-authored/co-edited 7 books, published over 60 peer-reviewed papers, and gave over 40 invited and keynote lectures on national and international technical meetings. He is the initiator and a co-organizer of the First Gordon Research Conference on Combinatorial and High Throughput Materials Science and other conferences and symposia on combinatorial methods in materials science and nanostructures for plasmonic sensing. Dr. Potyrailo is editor of Springer series Integrated Analytical Systems.

DJ Lee is the Technical Marketing Manager at Avery Dennison RFID. He received a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his Ph.D from the Ohio State University. He is responsible for developing and managing the market channel for Avery Dennison RFID Company and new emerging RFID applications. His expertise is in RFID inlay manufacturing and RFID tag converting technology advancement, and further, smart label and sensor technology developments.

GE Global Research is one of the world's most diversified industrial research labs, providing innovative technology for all of GE's businesses. Global Research has been the cornerstone of GE technology for more than 100 years, developing breakthrough innovations in areas such as medical imaging, energy generation technology, jet engines and lighting. GE Global Research is headquartered in Niskayuna, New York and has facilities in Bangalore, India, Shanghai, China and Munich, Germany. For more information, visit: www.ge.com/research 

Avery Dennison helps make brands more inspiring and the world more intelligent. For 75 years the company has been a global leader in pressure-sensitive technology and materials, retail branding and information solutions, and organization and identification products for offices and consumers. A FORTUNE 500 company with sales of $6 billion in 2009, Avery Dennison is based in Pasadena, California and has employees in over 60 countries. For more information, visit www.averydennison.com 

Avery Dennison RFID, headquartered in Flowery Branch, Georgia, is the world's largest producer of RFID inlays, manufacturing and marketing RFID inlays and durable tags through label converters and system integrators. With design, testing and manufacturing facilities around the globe, Avery Dennison RFID is a leader in the global UHF and HF RFID marketplace, serving retail, aviation, supply chain, healthcare and government applications. For more information, visit www.rfid.averydennison.com