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2013
Conference Paper
Titel
Design and evaluation of low-frequency RFID transponder for cryogenic applications
Abstract
Electronic identification of cryobiological specimens is an emerging technology in the field of advanced biological specimen banking. In this paper, we focus on the design and evaluation of a radio-frequency identification transponder (RFID) using a low-frequency carrier signal for wireless specimen identification between room temperature and liquid-nitrogen temperatures. The transponder design is based on a commercial-off-the-shelf CMOS integrated circuit. The chip contains 1 kbit of EEPROM for user-defined data storage. We describe the design technique and results for the component and transponder characteristics at room temperature and 77 K. We have assembled a batch of prototype devices and tested them down to liquid-nitrogen temperature to verify the transponder design and present test results for read and write operations. We suggest further development steps including miniaturization, packaging and extended functionality.