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Integrated Wireless Power, Data Communication, and Thermal Sensing System for Autonomous Multisite Brain Implants

Implanted medical devices (IMDs) have been widely developed to support the monitoring and recording of biological data inside the body or brain. Wirelessly powered IMDs, a subset of implantable electronics, have been proposed to eliminate the limitations r ...

EPFL2024

Electromagnetic Radiation of Implantable Antennas

Mingxiang Gao

In the development of implantable bioelectronics, the establishment of efficient wireless RF links between implants and external nodes is crucial, providing substantial contributions to the advancement of medical diagnosis, therapies, and basic science. Im ...

EPFL2024

Radiation Performance of Antennas Implanted in Small Animals for Neuroengineering

Anja Skrivervik, Stéphanie Lacour, Mingxiang Gao, Kangling Wu, James Daniel Rosenthal

Wireless data communication could improve the performance and reliability of biomedical implants used in fundamental neuroscience research by removing infection-prone transcutaneous cabling. The small size of common research animals like mice and rodents, ...

IEEE2023

Radiation Patterns of RF Wireless Devices Implanted in Small Animals: Unexpected Deformations Due to Body Resonance

Anja Skrivervik, Stéphanie Lacour, Mingxiang Gao, German Augusto Ramirez Arroyave, Kangling Wu, James Daniel Rosenthal

One challenge in designing RF wireless bioelectronic devices is the impact of the interaction between electromagnetic waves and host body tissues on far-field wireless performance. In this paper, we investigate a peculiar phenomenon of implantable RF wirel ...

2023

Miniaturised, Wireless and Distributed Neural Interface Toward Cortical Visual Prosthesis

Gian Luca Barbruni

Over the last decades, implantable neural interfaces have been extensively explored and effectively deployed to address neurological and mental health disorders. The existing solutions present several limitations. Firstly, the physical size of the implanta ...

EPFL2023

DChannel: Accelerating Mobile ApplicationsWith Parallel High-bandwidth and Low-latency Channels

Haitham Al Hassanieh

Interactive mobile applications like web browsing and gaming are known to benefit significantly from low latency networking, as applications communicate with cloud servers and other users' devices. Emerging mobile channel standards have not met these needs ...

USENIX ASSOC2023

Wireless Powering Efficiency of Deep-Body Implantable Devices

Anja Skrivervik, Mingxiang Gao, Denys Nikolayev

The wireless power transfer (WPT) efficiency to implanted bioelectronic devices is constrained by several frequency-dependent physical mechanisms. Recent works have developed several mathematical formulations to understand these mechanisms and predict the ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Strategies, Techniques and Systems for powering low-maintenance and battery-free devices through Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer

Roberto La Rosa

The purpose of this research has a background in the market for Internet of Things (IoT)devices and wireless sensor networks. The Market Forecast predicts the connection of a trillion"things" by 2025. The global smart sensor market size trend grows from US ...

EPFL2022

Theoretical Efficiency and Dosimetry of Buffered On-body Transmitter Antennas for Wireless Powering of In-body Devices

Anja Skrivervik, Denys Nikolayev

The viable and safe application of wireless power transfer for powering bioelectronic implants requires understanding the wave propagation in heterogeneous and dispersive media, the electromagnetic exposure assessment, and the optimum design of the system ...

IEEE2022

Subthreshold VO2 vertical switches for large-bandwidth millimeter-wave and sub-terahertz detection

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Fatemeh Qaderi Rahaqi, Ali Gilani, Daesung Park

n-linear impedance characteristics of VO2 offer solutions to highly sensitive radio-frequency (RF), millimeterwave (mm-wave), and terahertz (THz) detectors. We demonstrate high-speed broadband sensibility of miniaturized VO2 switches by utilizing the nonli ...

IEEE2022

Development of Thin Film Lithium Niobate Shear Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators

Soumya Yandrapalli

RF MEMS piezoelectric acoustic resonators are the essential building blocks for RF filters used in RF front-end modules for wireless mobile communication due to their compact size in the MHz-GHz frequency range, high Quality factors and large relative band ...

EPFL2022

Propagation-Loss Characterization for Livestock Implantables at (433,868,1400) MHz

Denys Nikolayev

Automated systems based on wearable sensors for livestock monitoring are becoming increasingly popular. Specifically, wireless in-body sensors could yield relevant data, such as ruminal temperature. The collection of such data requires an accurate characte ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

A Self-powered Ambient Light Power Measurement Platform with Time-domain Readout

Catherine Dehollain, Roberto La Rosa

Internet of Things (IoT) provides more and more adequate infrastructures for many applications and advanced services. This scenario promotes the ability to satisfy the growing demand for innovative measuring systems, increasingly popular consisting of inte ...

IEEE2021

Time-Varying Components for Enhancing Wireless Transfer of Power and Information

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Mohammad Sajjad Mirmoosa

Temporal modulation of components of electromagnetic systems provides an exceptional opportunity to engineer the response of those systems in a desired fashion, both in the time and frequency domains. For engineering time-modulated systems, one needs to th ...

American Physical Society (APS)2021

Adaptive Wireless Power Transfer and Backscatter Communication for Perpetual Operation of Wireless Brain-Computer Interfaces

James Daniel Rosenthal

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are neural prosthetics that enable closed-loop electrophysiology procedures. These devices are currently used in fundamental neurophysiology research, and they are moving toward clinical viability for neural rehabilitation. ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

An energy autonomous and battery-free measurement system for ambient light power with time domain readout

Catherine Dehollain, Roberto La Rosa

Internet of Things (IoT) provides more and more adequate infrastructures for many applications and advanced services. This context promotes the ability to satisfy the growing demand for innovative measuring systems, increasingly popular with intelligent no ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

LIGHTBLUE: Automatic Profile-Aware Debloating of Bluetooth Stacks

Mathias Josef Payer, Daniele Antonioli

The Bluetooth standard is ubiquitously supported by computers, smartphones, and IoT devices. Due to its complexity, implementations require large codebases, which are prone to security vulnerabilities, such as the recently discovered BlueBorne and BadBluet ...

USENIX ASSOC2021

Advanced Monitoring Systems Based on Battery-Less Asset Tracking Modules Energized through RF Wireless Power Transfer

Catherine Dehollain, Roberto La Rosa

Asset tracking involving accurate location and transportation data is highly suited to wireless sensor networks (WSNs) featuring battery-less nodes that can be deployed in virtually any environment and require little or no maintenance. In response to the g ...

2020

USBFuzz: A Framework for Fuzzing USB Drivers by Device Emulation

Mathias Josef Payer

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) connects external devices to a host. This interface exposes the OS kernels and device drivers to attacks by malicious devices. Unfortunately, kernels and drivers were developed under a security model that implicitly trusts co ...

USENIX ASSOC2020

Advanced Techniques for Powering Wireless Sensor Nodes through Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer

Roberto La Rosa

This paper presents three different techniques for efficiently powering an energy-autonomous wireless sensor (EAWS) through both energy harvesting (EH) and RF wireless power transfer (WPT). The aim of the paper is to provide effective strategies and techni ...

IEEE2020