scholarly journals Recent Progress in Wireless Sensors for Wearable Electronics

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (20) ◽  
pp. 4353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young-Geun Park ◽  
Sangil Lee ◽  
Jang-Ung Park
Keyword(s):  
Communication Systems ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Contact Lenses ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Data Communication ◽  
Sensor Systems ◽  
Wearable Electronics ◽  
Wireless Power ◽  
Sensing Platforms ◽  
Art Research

The development of wearable electronics has emphasized user-comfort, convenience, security, and improved medical functionality. Several previous research studies transformed various types of sensors into a wearable form to more closely monitor body signals and enable real-time, continuous sensing. In order to realize these wearable sensing platforms, it is essential to integrate wireless power supplies and data communication systems with the wearable sensors. This review article discusses recent progress in wireless technologies and various types of wearable sensors. Also, state-of-the-art research related to the application of wearable sensor systems with wireless functionality is discussed, including electronic skin, smart contact lenses, neural interfaces, and retinal prostheses. Current challenges and prospects of wireless sensor systems are discussed.

scholarly journals Scaling capacity of fiber-optic transmission systems via silicon photonics

Nanophotonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Shi ◽  
Ye Tian ◽  
Antoine Gervais
Keyword(s):  
Silicon Photonics ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Rapid Evolution ◽  
System Capacity ◽  
Disruptive Technology ◽  
System Perspective ◽  
Silicon Photonic

AbstractThe tremendous growth of data traffic has spurred a rapid evolution of optical communications for a higher data transmission capacity. Next-generation fiber-optic communication systems will require dramatically increased complexity that cannot be obtained using discrete components. In this context, silicon photonics is quickly maturing. Capable of manipulating electrons and photons on the same platform, this disruptive technology promises to cram more complexity on a single chip, leading to orders-of-magnitude reduction of integrated photonic systems in size, energy, and cost. This paper provides a system perspective and reviews recent progress in silicon photonics probing all dimensions of light to scale the capacity of fiber-optic networks toward terabits-per-second per optical interface and petabits-per-second per transmission link. Firstly, we overview fundamentals and the evolving trends of silicon photonic fabrication process. Then, we focus on recent progress in silicon coherent optical transceivers. Further scaling the system capacity requires multiplexing techniques in all the dimensions of light: wavelength, polarization, and space, for which we have seen impressive demonstrations of on-chip functionalities such as polarization diversity circuits and wavelength- and space-division multiplexers. Despite these advances, large-scale silicon photonic integrated circuits incorporating a variety of active and passive functionalities still face considerable challenges, many of which will eventually be addressed as the technology continues evolving with the entire ecosystem at a fast pace.

scholarly journals Recent Advances in Wearable Devices for Non-Invasive Sensing

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1235
Author(s):  
Su Min Yun ◽  
Moohyun Kim ◽  
Yong Won Kwon ◽  
Hyobeom Kim ◽  
Mi Jung Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Data Transmission ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Wireless Power ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Sensing Systems ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Wearable Systems ◽  
Precise Diagnosis

The development of wearable sensors is aimed at enabling continuous real-time health monitoring, which leads to timely and precise diagnosis anytime and anywhere. Unlike conventional wearable sensors that are somewhat bulky, rigid, and planar, research for next-generation wearable sensors has been focused on establishing fully-wearable systems. To attain such excellent wearability while providing accurate and reliable measurements, fabrication strategies should include (1) proper choices of materials and structural designs, (2) constructing efficient wireless power and data transmission systems, and (3) developing highly-integrated sensing systems. Herein, we discuss recent advances in wearable devices for non-invasive sensing, with focuses on materials design, nano/microfabrication, sensors, wireless technologies, and the integration of those.

VOLTAGE CONTROL OF MAGNETISM IN MULTIFERROIC HETEROSTRUCTURES AND DEVICES

SPIN ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 02 (03) ◽  
pp. 1240004 ◽  
Author(s):  
NIAN X. SUN ◽  
GOPALAN SRINIVASAN
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Phase Shifters ◽  
Ultra Wideband ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Microwave Devices ◽  
Multiferroic Materials ◽  
Multiferroic Heterostructures ◽  
Rf Microwave

Multiferroic materials and devices have attracted intensified recent interests due to the demonstrated strong magnetoelectric (ME) coupling in new multiferroic materials and devices with unique functionalities and superior performance characteristics. Strong ME coupling has been demonstrated in a variety of multiferroic heterostructures, including bulk magnetic on ferro/piezoelectric multiferroic heterostructures, magnetic film on ferro/piezoelectric slab multiferroic heterostructures, thin film multiferroic heterostructures, etc. Different multiferroic devices have been demonstrated, which include magnetic sensors, energy harvesters, and voltage tunable multiferroic RF/microwave devices which are compact, lightweight, and power efficient. In this progress report, we cover the most recent progress on multiferroic heterostructures and devices with a focus on voltage tunable multiferroic heterostructures and devices with strong converse ME coupling. Recent progress on magnetic-field tunable RF/microwave devices are also covered, including novel non-reciprocal tunable bandpass filters with ultra wideband isolation, compact, low loss and high power handling phase shifters, etc. These novel tunable multiferroic heterostructures and devices and tunable magnetic devices provide great opportunities for next generation reconfigurable RF/microwave communication systems and radars, Spintronics, magnetic field sensing, etc.

scholarly journals Energy-Efficient Hybrid Routing Protocol for IoT Communication Systems in 5G and Beyond

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 537
Author(s):  
Mohammad Baniata ◽  
Haftu Tasew Reda ◽  
Naveen Chilamkurti ◽  
Alsharif Abuadbba
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Network Lifetime ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Clustering Methods ◽  
Mimo Antenna ◽  
Improve Energy Efficiency ◽  
Art Research

One of the major concerns in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is most of the sensor nodes are powered through limited lifetime of energy-constrained batteries, which majorly affects the performance, quality, and lifetime of the network. Therefore, diverse clustering methods are proposed to improve energy efficiency of the WSNs. In the meantime, fifth-generation (5G) communications require that several Internet of Things (IoT) applications need to adopt the use of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna systems to provide an improved capacity over multi-path channel environment. In this paper, we study a clustering technique for MIMO-based IoT communication systems to achieve energy efficiency. In particular, a novel MIMO-based energy-efficient unequal hybrid clustering (MIMO-HC) protocol is proposed for applications on the IoT in the 5G environment and beyond. Experimental analysis is conducted to assess the effectiveness of the suggested MIMO-HC protocol and compared with existing state-of-the-art research. The proposed MIMO-HC scheme achieves less energy consumption and better network lifetime compared to existing techniques. Specifically, the proposed MIMO-HC improves the network lifetime by approximately 3× as long as the first node and the final node dies as compared with the existing protocol. Moreover, the energy that cluster heads consume on the proposed MIMO-HC is 40% less than that expended in the existing protocol.

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