Nanochips in vaccines

Complete Utter Rubbish. Here is why.

The idea that “nanochips” are being snuck into vaccines and then injected into human beings ostensibly to track us is just complete utter nonsense. I know a thing or two about integrated circuit design as well as electronics. I design integrated circuits for a living and have been doing it for a living for the last 25 years of my 35+ year career as a electronics design engineer.

Let’s start off with a photograph RFID “chip” which apparently has been used to “track” human-beings in marathons compliments of Ken Shirriff’s blog (I do not know the author). This one is built by Impinj, a company based out of Seattle. All of its relevant specification including the operating transmit/receive frequency, and its antenna requirements can be found in this datasheet. I added my educated guess at the size of the structures placed in the corner which are used as connections to the antenna which is external to the chip. The corner structures are approximately on the order of a diameter of a human hair. The die itself measures 590 microns x 590 microns per Impinj’s datasheet on page 17, which is much larger than a human hair.

Ken adds a couple of other pictures to add context just how large this chip is. It’s pretty small. It’s about 60% smaller than any chip I have designed.

This RFID chip vs a penny…you can see the antenna connection points at the four corners of the chip..the shiny gold dots:

This RFID chip on top of 1983 Intel technology. This illustrates Moore’s law which this chip is approaching physical limitations to shrinkage:

This RFID tag is “tuned” to operate UHF (ultra-high frequency) in the range of 860-960MHz. It is a passive RFID tag meaning it requires no batteries to operate. How does it power on without a power source? It requires an antenna (not included) from which it harvests radio energy from a nearby “reader” tuned to its operating frequency. The word “tuned” is used exactly as implied: like tuning a radio to a radio station. It won’t work at “other frequencies” other than what it is tuned to.

Impinj describes the process as follows:

The tag is activated by proximity to an active reader. When the tag enters a reader’s RF field, the Power Management block converts the induced electromagnetic field to the DC voltage that powers the chip.

Note: Impinj uses the word “proximity”. This implies that its range is limited. Conceptually, schematically, this looks like this:

Impinj’s datasheet gives examples of the range of the tag (chip + antenna) which varies as a function of antenna geometry. One particular dipole antenna has a range of approximately 5-10 meters. Two other examples in the datasheet show tag range between 4 and 8 meters.

The important observation to make which completely kills the idea that vaccines are laced with microchips is the antenna size, noted above: 9.5cm x 0.8cm!! Even the smaller antennas mentioned in the datasheet which have less range, require 0.7cm x 0.7cm antenna.

There is a fundamental limit to electrically small antenna size called Chu’s limit. Basically, when you shrink down antennas below a certain size relative to the wavelength they operate, they lose efficiency and don’t work very well. Recent research has been able to push beyond this “limit”, but it is not like they are pushing beyond by a factor of 25 which would be required to make the accompanying antenna the size of the RFID chip.

So there is no reason to believe that vaccines are being contaminated by “nano-chips” to track us. There are just physical limitations that exist to how miniaturized these RFID tags can become. A 23 guage vaccine needle whose inner diameter is 337 microns is just too small even for the chip, let alone the antenna. One needs to vaccinate with a 20 guage needle to fit a 590 micron x 590 micron chip (barely).

Not so fast you say. What about animal RFID tags which operate at much lower frequencies yet are very small? Animal RFID operate in the 134kHz range and use near field inductive coupling (via a copper wire of many turns wound around a ferrite core). A diagram of a pet RFID tag is shown below.

And when I say these operate only near-field, I mean really near-field. We are talking about ~10 centimeters of range, and they are still too large to be injected clandestinely delivered with a vaccine. These are implanted with permission of the pet owner.

If you ever go to the vet with your pet, and they take out an RFID tag reader, they move the reader close to the pet in search for a pet tag. They cannot do this from distance. Note the "circular loop” on the vet’s scanner. That is how the reader inductively couples to the microchip through loops of wire embedded in that scanner loop, which generate magnetic fields, which couple to the solenoid loops of wire surrounding the ferrite core in the glass capsule shown above in the figure and shown schematically in the figure below.

The ferrite core in the glass captule has permeable iron which concentrate the magnetic field (B) for better signal. Something not available on silicon chips.

Lastly, what can these RFID tags do, or what data can they hold, or what biodata can they monitor. It is actually quite limited, less than 8Kbits (Note: not 8Kbytes). Not really enough to create cyborgs. But easily enough to uniquely transmit a binary number to identify a pet using a reader, a runner in a marathon, or a warehouse/store item, at which an external computer does the rest of the work. That is about the limitation of their function.

The larger question for those who paranoid about this: Are you walking around with a cell phone. A cell phone has all that is needed to track you and more. The NSA probably knows a lot more about you than you are aware. Why would anyone invest in doing this at the level of vaccines when cell phones are ubiquitous, hold far more data about the owner, and basically come at no cost to clandestinely monitor for the totalitarian?

Ed Snowden on cell phones;