Additive Manufacturing Exploitation for Wireless Sensing and Radio Frequency Identification

Additive manufacturing includes a vast landscape of different technologies, both 2D and 3D as well as hybrid ones, which provide great flexibility and customization to the designer. Although most of the mature applications that exploit this paradigm takes advantage of the control of mechanical properties of the fabricated objects, additive manufacturing has been recently adopted also for electromagnetic design of innovative identification and sensing devices. This work focuses on the ongoing research activities carried out at the Additive Manufacturing Crosslab of the University of Pisa as tangible proof of the great potential offered by these technologies.