RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TAGS FOR USE ON METAL OR OTHER CONDUCTIVE OBJECTS

A radio frequency identification ("RFID") tags that are useful on metal or other conductive surface and to methods for manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, the radio frequency identification tag includes: a substrate including a first major surface and a second major surface opposite the first major surface; a radio frequency identification antenna attached to the first major surface of the substrate; an integrated circuit attached to the antenna, and a first composite layer wherein the first composite layer comprises binder and a plurality of multilayered flakes dispersed in the binder, the multilayered flakes comprising two to about (100) layer pairs, each layer pair comprising one crystalline ferromagnetic metal layer adjacent to one dielectric layer, wherein the layer pairs form a stack of alternating ferromagnetic metal layers and dielectric layers.