Printed RFID tags: Performance needs and technology trends

Review of characteristics of state of the art printed transistors, including performance and SPICE modeling

Topology issues in printed RFID, including reader-tag interactions, stability, and performance requirements

Design tradeoffs in printed RFID tags

Vivek Subramanian received his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1998.

 

Dr. Subramanian co-founded Matrix Semiconductor, Inc., in 1998. Since 2000, he has been at the Department of Electrical engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His current research focuses on organic electronics for display, low-cost logic, and sensing applications.

 

Dr. Subramanian is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and has served on the technical committee for the Device Research Conference and the International Electron Device Meeting. In 2002, he was nominated to Technology Review's list of top 100 young innovators (the TR100), and his work at Matrix Semiconductor was nominated to the Scientific American SA50 list for visionary technology. Recent awards he has received include the Paul Rappaport Award for the best paper in an IEEE EDS journal, the IEEE Device Research Conference best paper award, and the distinguished teaching award from the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

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