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Toray Achieves World’s 1st UHF Wireless Communication with Low-Cost Printed RFIDs

The RFID employs a high-performance semi-conductive carbon nanotube composite.

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By: Anthony Locicero

Copy editor, New York Post

Toray Industries, Inc. announced that it became the first in the world to communicate wirelessly across the UHF (ultrahigh frequency) band with a printed semiconductor. This setup employs a printed radio-frequency identifier (RFID) that the company created. The RFID employs a high-performance semi-conductive carbon nanotube composite. Toray’s achievement demonstrated the potential for manufacturing UHF RFIDs by low-cost printing processes to dramatically streamline retail and logistics operatio...

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