Screen-Printed Chipless Wireless Temperature Sensor

Abstract

A chipless wireless sensor for temperature monitoring is described in this work. The sensor is fabricated by screen printing of an RLC circuit on a flexible substrate. The sensing element is a resistive carbon paste with positive temperature coefficient placed in a small area in the interconnection between the inductor and the capacitor. This sensing layer modifies the resonance frequency of the circuit when the temperature varies. We also show the influence of the sensor sensitivity with respect to the reading distance.