PROFESSOR CYNTHIA FURSE
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Utah
50 S Central Campus Dr.
Salt Lake City, Utah 84108
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Cynthia M. Furse is a Fellow of the IEEE and the National Academy of Inventors and is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Her research interests are the application of electromagnetics to sensing and communication in complex lossy scattering media such as the human body, geophysical prospecting, ionospheric plasma, and complex wiring networks. Dr. Furse is a founder of LiveWire Innovation, Inc., a spin-off company from her research, commercializing devices to locate intermittent faults on live wires. She has taught electromagnetics, wireless communication, computational electromagnetics, microwave engineering, antenna design, introductory electrical engineering, and engineering entrepreneurship and has been a leader in the development of the flipped classroom. Dr. Furse is an Associate Editor for the Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (AP), a member of the IEEE AP Young Professionals Committee, a past Administrative Committee member for the IEEE AP society, and past chair of the IEEE AP Education Committee. She has received numerous teaching and research awards including the 2020 IEEE Chen To Tai Distinguished Educator Award.
TITLE
History and Future of Implantable Antennas
ABSTRACT
Implantable antennas have been used for communication with medical implants for decades. Since then, wireless medical telemetry systems and their associated implantable antennas have expanded rapidly. Implantable medical devices now touch virtually every major function in the human body. Cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators, neural recording and stimulation devices, cochlear and retinal implants are just a few of the many implantable medical devices available today. Wireless telemetry for these devices is necessary to monitor battery level and device health, upload reprogramming for device function, and download data for patient monitoring.
Emerging medical telemetry devices have led to recent advances in the design of small, biocompatible antennas that can be implanted in the human body. This paper will track the types of antennas seen in the past, the technologies that enabled these changes, and prospects for future implantable antennas for medical applications.
PROFESSOR AKIMASA HIRATA
Nagoya Institute of Technology
Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Nagoya, Japan
BIOGRAPHY
Prof. Hirata received the Ph.D. degree in communications engineering from Osaka University, Suita, Japan, in 2000. He is currently Full Professor and Director of Research Center, Nagoya Institute of Technology. His research interests include electromagnetic safety, EMC, antennas, filters, risk management system for heat-related illness, methods in neuroscience, and related computational techniques. Prof. Hirata is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on EMC, an editorial board member of Physics in Medicine and Biology. He is a member of the main commission and a Chair of project group of International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP, from 2015), and a member of administrative committee and a Subcommittee (EMF Dosimetry Modeling) Chair of IEEE International Committee on Electromagnetic Safety (ICES, from 2014), and an expert of World Health Organization. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Institute of Physics, and IEICE.
TITLE
Characteristics of Wireless Devices in the Presence of Human Body
ABSTRACT
The human body whose electrical behavior depend on the frequency should be considered in the modern design of wireless devices which are used in proximity of the human body. Also, safety assessment of induced electric field or power deposition in the human body is needed to satisfy the limits prescribed in international standard and guidelines. However, an accurate electromagnetic modeling with human body is complicated, as it depends not only on the frequency but also the individual variabilities, environmental factors, actual design of the device and use scenarios. In this talk, recent progress in modeling of human in electromagnetics is presented. Then, the effect of the human presence on the wireless devices including wireless communication terminals and wireless power transfer systems is explained considering typical scenarios. Exposure assessment is also presented for 5G wireless communications system.
DR JON MARTENS
Engineering Fellow, Anritsu
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Jon Martens has been with Anritsu since 1995 where he is currently an Engineering Fellow. His research interests include measurement system architectures and pathologies, millimeter-wave circuit and system design, and a wide range of microwave measurement processes to include materials analysis, nonlinear and quasi-linear characterization, optical interactions, free-space measurements, and calibration.
He is the inventor or co-inventor on over 20 patents, has (co-)authored several book chapters and over 50 technical publications. Dr. Martens is a past chair of the MTT measurements technical subcommittee and is a past president of the measurement’s society ARFTG and is still active in both. He is a former associate editor for the Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques and is currently serving as a Distinguished Microwave Lecturer for the MTT society.
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What is my measurement equipment actually doing? Implications for 5G/6G, mm-wave and related applications
ABSTRACT
Current microwave and high frequency instrumentation perform many tasks behind the scenes, even more so in the mm-wave and high modulation rate regimes that are critical for new communications, imaging, and related application, and it is easy to lose track of how the equipment, the processing algorithms, the setup/environment and the signals are interacting. By exploring the measurement mechanics within some common instruments under practical conditions, it may be easier to understand where sensitivities or anomalies might increase, how to mitigate them and how the hardware has been evolving. Through a study of example architectures and measurements, including those in the 100+ GHz range and those with wide modulation bandwidths where linearity, dynamic range and other physical metrics are stressed even more, mechanisms and ideas for better measurements will be explored.