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Continuous health monitoring using wireless body area networks (WBANs) of wearable, epidermal and implantable medical devices is envisioned as a transformative approach to healthcare. Rapid advances in biomedical sensors, low-power…
Indoor localization is a cornerstone of mobile services. Until now most of the research effort has focused on achieving sub-meter localization accuracy because many mobile applications depend on precise localization measurements. In some…
Low-power sensors can be integrated into an aircraft for numerous use cases. Conventionally, these sensors are powered via cables, which introduces various disadvantages to the overall efficiency of the aircraft. Alternatively, batteries…
Implantable bioelectronics often relies on an RF-wireless link for communication and/or remote powering. Propagation through biological media is very lossy, and previous work has shown that these losses can be separated into three parts:…
A wireless power transfer experiment suitable for senior physics undergraduates that operates between 3 and 4 MHz is described and demonstrated in detail. The apparatus consists of a pair of identical resonant coils that can be moved…
Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) has emerged as a viable technique to energize and connect low-power autonomous devices and enable future Internet of Things (IoT). A major challenge of SWIPT is the energy…
To achieve efficient long-range wireless power transfer (WPT), large antenna systems are necessary spanning lengths of tens to thousands of meters in one dimension. This creates an array in the order of at least hundreds of thousands to…
Biomedical implantable technologies are life-saving modalities for millions of people globally because of their abilities of wireless remote monitoring, regulating the abnormal functions of internal organs, and early detection of cognitive…
Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) is expected to be a technology reshaping the landscape of low-power applications such as the Internet of Things, Radio Frequency identification (RFID) networks, etc. Although there has been some progress…
Wireless charging is a technology of transmitting power through an air gap to electrical devices for the purpose of energy replenishment. The recent progress in wireless charging techniques and development of commercial products have…
This paper explores a multi-antenna dual-functional radio frequency (RF) wireless power transfer (WPT) and radar system to charge multiple unresponsive devices. We formulate a beamforming problem to maximize the minimum received power at…
We propose a technique for efficient mid-range wireless power transfer between two coils, by adapting the process of adiabatic passage for a coherently driven two-state quantum system to the realm of wireless energy transfer. The proposed…
The wired charging and the need for battery replacements are critical barriers to unlimited, scalable, and sustainable mobile connectivity, motivating the interest in radio frequency (RF) wireless power transfer (WPT) technology. However,…
We introduce inter-technology backscatter, a novel approach that transforms wireless transmissions from one technology to another, on the air. Specifically, we show for the first time that Bluetooth transmissions can be used to create Wi-Fi…
The growing use of wearable devices for activity tracking, healthcare, and haptics faces challenges due to the bulkiness and short lifespan of batteries. Integration of a textile-based wireless charging and readout system into everyday…
Cell switching is a promising approach for improving energy efficiency in wireless networks; however, existing studies largely rely on simplified models and energy-centric formulations that overlook key performance-limiting factors. This…
Optimization of strongly non-linear tightly coupled feeds attached to antennas is a challenging problem from a purely computational perspective. One can imagine that an optimization would (a) need to be in the time domain, and (b) has to be…
This article proposes a novel system concept named universal wireless power transfer, in which power can be wirelessly transferred between different entities (e.g. vehicles, robots, homes, grid facilities, consumer electronic devices, etc.)…
In this work, we present the results of a wideband measurement campaign at 60 GHz conducted inside a Linkker electric city bus. Targeting prospective millimeter-wave (mmWave) public transportation wearable scenarios, we mimic a typical…
The dynamics and performance of a two-coil resonant coupled wireless power transfer system are investigated. At high coupling, the frequency-splitting phenomenon occurs, in which the power transferred to the load attains its maximum at two…