A Selective Ink Deposition Method for the Cost-Performance Optimization of Inkjet-Printed UHF RFID Tag Antennas

Table 2

Ink consumptions to form the deposition masks and their maximal achieved read ranges.

Deposition mask	Ink consumption to form the mask	Overall achieved peak read range
Full antenna	0.40 μL	7.2 m
5 mask	0.23 μL	6.8 m
10 mask	0.06 μL	5.1 m
40 mask	0.02 μL	4.0 m
Dipole arms	0.30 μL	3.5 m
Matching network	0.09 μL	4.6 m