EETimes.com - Philips not first with plastic RFID, claims startup

"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.
�We are happy to have a big player such as Philips in this market. But one thing we want to correct is, they were not the first. We have successfully demonstrated and published on a 13.56-MHz tag based on polymer materials,� Wolfgang Mildner, managing director of PolyIC, told EE Times in an e-mail. Mildner said PolyIC (Erlangen, Germany), a joint venture of Leonhard Kurz GmbH & Co. KG and Siemens AG, presented a paper on its RFID tag at an organic RFID conference held in October 2005. "