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Sensors (Basel). 2017 Sep 09;17(9). doi: 10.3390/s17092068.

Review of Batteryless Wireless Sensors Using Additively Manufactured Microwave Resonators.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)

Muhammad Usman Memon, Sungjoon Lim

Affiliations

  1. School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, College of Engineering, Chung-Ang University, 221 Heukseok-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 156-756, Korea. [email protected].
  2. School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, College of Engineering, Chung-Ang University, 221 Heukseok-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 156-756, Korea. [email protected].

PMID: 28891947 PMCID: PMC5621092 DOI: 10.3390/s17092068

Abstract

The significant improvements observed in the field of bulk-production of printed microchip technologies in the past decade have allowed the fabrication of microchip printing on numerous materials including organic and flexible substrates. Printed sensors and electronics are of significant interest owing to the fast and low-cost fabrication techniques used in their fabrication. The increasing amount of research and deployment of specially printed electronic sensors in a number of applications demonstrates the immense attention paid by researchers to this topic in the pursuit of achieving wider-scale electronics on different dielectric materials. Although there are many traditional methods for fabricating radio frequency (RF) components, they are time-consuming, expensive, complicated, and require more power for operation than additive fabrication methods. This paper serves as a summary/review of improvements made to the additive printing technologies. The article focuses on three recently developed printing methods for the fabrication of wireless sensors operating at microwave frequencies. The fabrication methods discussed include inkjet printing, three-dimensional (3D) printing, and screen printing.

Keywords: 3D printing; RF resonators; RF sensors; inkjet printing; screen printing; wireless

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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