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Home » Where Is RFID Going - and Where Is It Taking Us?

Where Is RFID Going - and Where Is It Taking Us?

March 20, 2014
ChainLink Research

It took a long time for RFID to get to today—the first billion tags. But the market is humming along now. And even now a stunning amount of innovations is going on to find the true “home” of RFID.  But our goal here for this article is not to look back, but to leap forward into the future.

The future of electronics, RFID and antennas is quite interesting. Material innovations in organic polymers, Nano technology, meta materials; and innovations in processing such as advances in photolithography, electron-beam lithography, direct laser/optical lithography, electrophoretic; new battery/power technologies—the whole area of printed electronics on organic new material, cloth and paper, all are in motion to step by step transform the semiconductor world. More flexible and cheaper production will enable a new generation of RFID growth.

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