MO2A Focus Session

Monday, 19 Jan, 2009
10:15 am - 12:00 pm

"Wireless Energy Harvesting and Power Transfer"

MO3A Focus Session

Monday, 19 Jan, 2009
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm

"RFID Technologies and Applications"

MO4A Focus Session

Monday, 19 Jan, 2009
3:45 pm– 5:30 pm

"Biomedical Applications of RF/Wireless Technologies"

Session: MO2A Focus Session
Location: Salon B
Session Title: "Wireless Energy Harvesting and Power Transfer"
Chair: Debabani Choudhury, Intel
Co-Chair: Sergio Pacheco, Freescale

MO2A-1 – 10:20 am (Invited)

"Biomechanical Energy Harvesting"

J. M. Donelan
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

MO2A-2 – 10:40 am (Invited)

"Low Power IC Design for Energy Harvesting Wireless Biosensors"

B. P. Otis, J. Holleman, Y. Liao, J. Pandey, S. Rai, Y. Su, D. Yeager
University of Washington, Seattle, USA

MO2A-3 – 11:00 am (Invited)

Power Management for Energy Harvesting Applications

P. L. Chapman
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

MO2A-4 – 11:20 am (Invited)

Recent Wireless Power Transmission Technologies in Japan for Space Solar Power Station/Satellite

N. Shinohara, S. Kawasaki
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

MO2A-5 – 11:40 am (Invited)

Experimental Results with two Wireless Power Transfer Systems

A. Sample (1,2), J. R. Smith (1)
(1) Intel Research Seattle, Seattle, USA,
(2) University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Session: MO3A Focus Session
Location: Salon B
Session Title: "RFID Technologies and Applications"
Chair: Ed Niehenke, Niehenke Consulting
Co-Chair: Rashaunda Henderson, Univ. of Texas at Dallas

MO3A-1 – 1:35 pm (Invited)

Advanced Synchronisation and Decoding in RFID Reader Receivers

C. Angerer, M. Rupp
TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

MO3A-2 – 1:55 pm

An RFID Tag Capable of Free-space and On-Metal Operation

N. Mohammed, M. Sivakumar, D. Deavours
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

MO3A-3 – 2:15 pm

An Impedance Matching Technique of a UHF-Band RFID Tag on a High-Impedance Surface with Parasite Elements

T. Konishi (1,2), T. Miura (1), Y. Numata (1),
S. Sato (1), A. Sanada (2), H. Kubo (2)
(1) NEC TOKIN Corporation, Sendai, Japan
(2) Yamaguchi University, Ube, Japan

MO3A-4 – 2:35 pm

Analysis of Orientation Dependence of Passive UHF RFID Tags in Wrist Straps for Use in the Identification of Human Beings

D. D. Arumugam (1), D. W. Engels (1), M. H. Mickle (2)
(1) University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, USA
(2) University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

MO3A-5 – 2:55 pm

A 13.56MHz RFID Transceiver SoC for Multi-Standard Reader

M. Seo, Y. Choi, Y. Kim, H. Yoo
Information and Communication University, Yuseong-Gu, Republic of Korea

Session: MO4A Focus Session
Location: Salon B
Session title: "Biomedical Applications of RF/Wireless Technologies"
Chair: Victor Lubecke, University of Hawaii
Co-Chair: Mohammad Tofighi, Penn State University

MO4A-1 – 3:50 pm (Invited)

Embedded Microwave System for Monitoring of Intracranial Pressure

U. Kawoos (1), R. Warty (1), M. Tofighi (2), F. A. Kralick (3), A. Rosen (1)
(1) Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
(2) Penn State University, Middletown, USA
(3) Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA

MO4A-2 – 4:10 pm (Invited)

Capsule Antennas for Medication Compliance Monitoring

R. Bashirullah (1), N. Euliano (2)
(1) University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
(2) Convergent Engineering, Gainesville, USA

MO4A-3 – 4:30 pm (Invited)

Modeling and Design of a Wireless Hearing Aid Communication System

G. S. Shaker (1), M. Nezhad-Ahmadi (2), S. Safavi-Naeini (1), G. Weale (2),
(1) University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
(2) AMI Semiconductor Canada Co, Waterloo, Canada

MO4A-4 – 4:50 pm (Invited)

RFID-Enabled Biosensing Wireless Modules

M. M. Tentzeris
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

MO4A-5 – 5:10 pm (Invited)

Wireless Technologies in Sleep Monitoring

V. Lubecke
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA