3M Developing "Organic" Tags
“The trouble is that today’s RFID tags remain too costly for mass market uses, Baude said. A package containing a silicon chip and a tiny radio antenna mounted on a material called a “substrate” today costs 15 to 20 cents. That price needs to be cut to 1 to 2 cents, and 3M hopes to achieve that by substituting organic materials such as plastic for the relatively expensive silicon used in today’s RFID chips, he said. Plastic is called organic because it is partly composed of the element carbon, which plays a key role in living organisms. Developing the organic chip material could take three to five years, he added.”
RFID Journal is also reporting on Carbon substrate chips. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/cr80news-4.gif)
