How Converters Can Make RFID Labels

An alternative route for converters seeking to vertically integrate by making the antennas is to look at the traditional HF applications including smart passports, tickets, cards, library books, rented textiles, laundry, and item-level drugs. This choice of HF leads to opportunities to supply up to 30 billion on drugs down to tens of millions yearly on passports. Pricing for quality and conformance are commonplace, as are profitable suppliers of RFID. However, these antennas do not work unless they are very conductive electrically and very precise in definition. Only where degradation of range is tolerable, as with cards, tickets, and passports, do we see printed silver paste antennas, the rest consisting of etched copper or aluminium in the main.