“Plastic-electronics developer PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG has contested a claim by Philips Research that Philips engineers realized the first plastic-electronics-based radio-frequency ID tag capable of transmitting multibit digital identification codes at 13.56 MHz.

The performance details of the Philips plastic circuit are being presented in San Francisco this week at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, which runs through Feb. 9.”

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