FLEXIBLE SOLUTIONS FOR ADVANCED ANTENNA APPLICATIONS
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Tampere, June 30, 2024 (during FLEPS 2024)
Abstract
The workshop aims to provide an overview on recent and advanced solutions for planar flexible antennas, ranging from wearable to stretchable ones, as well as 3D-printed realizations. The topics will be mostly faced from the technological point of view, thanks to the presence of two industrial speakers, but different applications will be considered, such as body-area-network, wireless power transfer/energy harvesting, and biomedical ones. Special attention will be devoted to the electromagnetic characterization and to design strategies for the improvement of the performance of flexible/wearable materials at radio-frequencies. The presence of speakers from both the academia and the industry will provide a complete overview of the realization of high-frequency electronic subsystems for radiative purposes.
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Because of the evolution of our society, we are experiencing the introduction of systems more and more distributed in the environment. Terms like “smart dust” are becoming popular, and their meaning refers to the pervasive presence of inexpensive computing devices with both communication and sensing capabilities. For all of them the need to be equipped with simple and modern radiating transceiver is of fundamental importance. For these reasons the workshop focuses on different strategies for the realization of the radiating terminal (the antenna) with low-cost flexible/textile materials and also on its effective combination with the electronic circuitry. The impact of the workshop topics on the present and future applied research is expected to be important.
The format of the workshop will be with presentations (4 from the academia and 2 from the industry) with interaction with the audience both during and at the end of each talk. Prototype of realized subsystems will be shown in the room as a demonstration of the potentialities of the discussed design strategies and technological choices.
The workshop will be a half day one: the schedule is on June 30, 2024 from 9.00 to 12.30.
Invited Speakers
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Leena Ukkonen
Tampere University, Korkeakoulunkatu 7, 33720 Tampere
email: leena.ukkonen@tuni.fi
Title:
“Flexible and Textile-based Antennas in Biomedical Systems”
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Mahmoud Wagih
University of Glasgow
James Watt Building
Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom, email: Mahmoud.Wagih@glasgow.ac.uk
Title:
“Flexible and Additive Electronics Enabling Sustainable MHz-mmWave Wireless Power”
3
Hendrik Rogier
University of Ghent, Department of Information technology
Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 126, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
email:Hendrik.Rogier@UGent.be
Title:
“Wearable antenna systems for joint body-centric communication, powering and sensing”
4
Gaetano Marrocco
University of Roma Tor Vergata/RADIO6ENSE
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ingegneria informatica, Via del Politecnico, 1 00133 Roma (Italy)
email: gaetano.marrocco@uniroma2.it
Title:
“Soft Antennas and sensors for biointegrated systems”
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Lorenzo Agostini
ADAPTRONICS
via dei Colli 16, Bologna (Italy)
email: lorenzo.agostini5@unibo.it
Title:
“Digital printing technologies for Flexible Electronics”
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Diego Masotti
University of Bologna
viale Risorgimento 2, 40136, Bologna (Italy)
email: diego.masotti@unibo.it
Title:
“3D-printable solutions for radiofrequency rectifying antennas”
A round table will be organized at the end of the workshop (a sort of panel session) in the last 30 minutes and will be advertised in the workshop dissemination. During the round table, all the speakers will be in front of the audience answering to questions, but also soliciting discussion among the attendees.
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The slides of the presenters will be made available, upon request, to all the attendees.