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Prof. Rappaport Wins Radio Club of America “Armstrong Medal”

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Prof. Durgin’s graduate adviser, Ted Rappaport, has just won the Armstrong Medal from the Radio Club of America.  The award, along with a bonus keynote by the award winner, will be presented at the RCA dinner on Saturday, 17 November 2018, in New York City.  From the NYU site:

BROOKLYN, New York, Friday, September 27, 2018 – The Radio Club of America (RCA) announced that Professor Theodore “Ted” Rappaport, founding director of NYU WIRELESS and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, will receive the Armstrong Medal for demonstrated excellence and lasting contributions to radio arts and sciences.

Congratulations, Prof. Rappaport!

Cheng Qi Wins Best Student Paper at IEEE RFID-TA 2018

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Congratulations to Cheng Qi for his paper, “Low-power and Compact Microwave RFID Reader for Sensing Applications in Space”, which has been awarded the best student paper at the IEEE RFID-TA 2018 conference in Macau, SER China.  This work documents Cheng’s work on the RFsat mission with Northwest Nazarene University, which is taking a custom-built GTPG microwave backscatter reader and energy-harvesting tag into space as part of a novel science package.  His co-authors are Prof. Josh Griffin (GTPG alum) and Prof. Durgin.  Well done, Cheng!

WWB08: H-field Modeling around Loops and Coils

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In this installment of the Wireless Without Batteries Lectures, we discuss magnetic field modeling  around loops and coils.  This is the background of near-field charging circuits.

WWB08: H-field Modeling around Loops and Coils

Paper:  S.Y. Hui, “Planar Wireless Charging Technology for Portable Electronic Products and Qi,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol 101, no 6, June 2013.
Reading:  MSF02, 04, 06 Youtube Videos

 

WWB07: RF Thermoelectric Conversion

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In this lecture from the Wireless Without Batteries series, we discuss a hypothetical device that converts RF energy to heat, and then to DC power.  Not only does this nanoscale device outperform conventional Silicon CMOS diode rectification at the nanoscale, but the analysis illustrates the fundamental thermodynamic limits of RF energy-harvesting.

WWB07:  RF Thermoelectric Conversion

Paper:  G.D. Durgin. “RF Thermoelectric Generation for Passive RFID,” IEEE RFID 2016, Orlando, FL. 5 May 2016. 8 pages.