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These coding and engineering bundles are only $20 each -- and pack loads of hireable knowledge - The Next Web

October 12, 2021

In the early centuries of sailing the open seas, often the only navigation tool was the human eye. Ships crews found their way by coordinating their paths based on observing the positions of the constellations of stars and planets in the sky.

Communications back then were equally old school. If ships were too far apart for crews to shout at each other, they would wave flags in specific patterns to convey simple messages.

Today, navigation, communications, ranging and nearly all operations of both sea-going vessels and airborne transportation are performed with technologies that could scarcely be imagined only several generations ago.

Now some of the most advanced communication, sensing, detection, signaling, course-setting and safety and emergency backup systems all fully automated and computerized are standard equipment. Still, the demands of the modern world continue to generate new applications to provide even more enhanced capabilities for our high-tech modes of connectivity and security.

Thats why there is keen interest in the research being conducted in facilities such as the MTP Lab at Arizona State University directed by Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh, an electrical and computer engineer and an assistant professor in ASUs Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.

His labs name is an acronym for the Millimeter-Wave, Terahertz and Photonic Integrated Circuits Lab, where researchers focus on designing high-speed integrated circuits (semiconductor chips) and systems operating at various electromagnetic frequency bands ranging from millimeter-wave frequencies to optical frequencies.

Innovative technological endeavors have earned Assistant Professor Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. It will fund the efforts by his laboratory team to pursue advances to enhance the capabilities of communications, sensing, ranging and navigation systems and networks (depicted in the illustration) that are critical for todays modern connected systems and national security. Illustration provided by Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh/ASU

The world we live in, Zeinolabedinzadeh says, is equipped with advanced technologies from the Internet of Things to communications and autonomous vehicles, all utilizing wireless transceiver systems with semiconductor chips built at the heart of those systems.

Chips that are only a few millimeters in size and less than 1 gram in weight can perform high-speed communication and high-accuracy sensing and ranging with the precision required for todays high-tech applications such as 5G communications, vehicle-to-vehicle communications, autonomous vehicles, wireless imaging and space missions.

Other circuits and systems produced by the MTP Lab are designed for use in harsh environments such as space, where there can be high radiation intensity and wide temperature variation. The lab is currently developing advanced terahertz spectrometer technology for use by NASA.

Zeinolabedinzadehs range of expertise and progress in these critical areas of research has most recently earned him a prestigious Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research, or ONR.

The award will provide $510,000 to support his labs research in areas with the potential to advance the goals of the ONRs Precision Navigation and Timekeeping program.

The programs primary objective is spurring innovation in fundamental science for navigation and communications technologies to produce the next generation of highly reliable systems with enhanced precision and reduced size.

Our goal in this project is to realize cooperative arrays of radio transceivers with electronic beamforming capability with enhanced operation range, improved spatial coverage, enhanced real-time awareness and resilience to interference, while significantly reducing the cost and weight by utilizing microelectronics technologies, says Zeinolabedinzadeh, who teaches in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, one of the seven Fulton Schools.

The proposed systems can mitigate the effects of interferers, jammers and blockers that can otherwise interrupt the operation of communication systems, he says.

His labs earlier projects have yielded notable breakthroughs in developing fully integrated millimeter wave and terahertz transceiver and transceiver array systems with robust transmission and electronic beamforming capability with extremely reduced size, weight and power consumption (SWaP) critical for portable applications.

The microelectronic integrated circuits involved in that process are small chips capable of speedily transmitting many gigabytes of data an advancement that enabled wireless technologies that have brought us todays powerful 5G and modern Wi-Fi telecommunications technologies, Zeinolabedinzadeh says.

Saeed Zeinolabedinzadehs research focuses on the development of advanced microchip radio frequency, millimeter-wave and terahertz high-speed integrated circuits. Photo by Erika Gronek/ASU

He and his lab team are delving into these same areas in their efforts for the ONR, as well as into ways to improve high-precision time transfer for communication and ranging devices in research that is supported by a Young Faculty Award Zeinolabedinzadeh received in 2020 from the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, or DARPA.

For the ONR project, the end product will be an array of chip-scale transceivers working together for improved communication, spatial coverage, real-time awareness and highly reliable, uninterruptible signal communication that overcomes limitations in existing technology while providing a cost-effective solution with reduced size, he says.

The project also will provide opportunities for Fulton Schools graduate students to work on the advanced topics from theorizing, analysis, modeling, design, simulation, implementation and characterization of the high-frequency chips similar to those found in 5G and Wi-Fi systems.

This award provides unique opportunities to advance our research goals at ASU to achieve breakthrough innovations that can significantly enhance the performance of next-generation wireless systems for improved precision, enhanced security, robustness and faster connectivity, Zeinolabedinzadeh says.

Top photo:Saeed Zeinolabedinzadehs lab team is focusing on making advances in microelectronic integrated circuits that are capable of speedily transmitting many gigabytes of data enabling the circuits to perform high-speed communications and high-accuracy sensing and ranging with extreme precision. Photo by Erika Gronek/ASU

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Engineering innovations to enhance the performance of wireless systems - ASU Now

By Emily Dieckman, College of Engineering

Oct. 8, 2021

Wearable sensors to monitor everything from step count to heart rate are nearly ubiquitous. But for scenarios such as measuring the onset of frailty in older adults, promptly diagnosing deadly diseases, testing the efficacy of new drugs or tracking the performance of professional athletes, medical-grade devices are needed.

University of Arizona engineers have developed a type of wearable they call a "biosymbiotic device," which has several unprecedented benefits. Not only are the devices custom 3D-printed and based on body scans of wearers, but they can operate continuously using a combination of wireless power transfer and compact energy storage. The team, led by Philipp Gutruf, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and Craig M. Berge Faculty Fellow in the College of Engineering, published its findings today in the journal Science Advances.

"There's nothing like this out there," said Gutruf, a member of the university's BIO5 Institute. "We introduce a completely new concept of tailoring a device directly to a person and using wireless power casting to allow the device to operate 24/7 without ever needing to recharge."

Custom Fit Enables Precise Monitoring

Current wearable sensors face various limitations. Smartwatches, for example, need to be charged, and they can only gather limited amounts of data due to their placement on the wrist. By using 3D scans of a wearer's body, which can be gathered via methods including MRIs, CT scans and even carefully combined smartphone images, Gutruf and his team can 3D-print custom-fitted devices that wrap around various body parts. Think a virtually unnoticeable, lightweight, breathable, mesh cuff designed specifically for your bicep, calf or torso. The ability to specialize sensor placement allows researchers to measure physiological parameters they otherwise couldn't.

"If you want something close to core body temperature continuously, for example, you'd want to place the sensor in the armpit. Or, if you want to measure the way your bicep deforms during exercise, we can place a sensor in the devices that can accomplish that," said Tucker Stuart, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering and first author on the paper. "Because of the way we fabricate the device and attach it to the body, we're able to use it to gather data a traditional, wrist-mounted wearable device wouldn't be able to collect."

Because these biosymbiotic devices are custom fitted to the wearer, they're also highly sensitive. Gutruf's team tested the device's ability to monitor parameters including temperature and strain while a person jumped, walked on a treadmill and used a rowing machine. In the rowing machine test, subjects wore multiple devices, tracking exercise intensity and the way muscles deformed with fine detail. The devices were accurate enough to detect body temperature changes induced by walking up a single flight of stairs.

Continuous, Wireless and Effortless

Gutruf and his team aren't the first to adapt wearables to track health and body function. However, current wearables do not have the ability to track metrics continuously, or with enough precision to make medically meaningful conclusions.

Some wearables used by researchers are patches that stick to the skin, but they come off when skin goes through its normal shedding process, or sometimes when a subject sweats. Even highly sophisticated wearables used in clinical settings, such as ECG monitors, face these issues. Also, they aren't wireless, which severely limits mobility. Patients can't go about their normal daily routines if they're tethered to bulky external devices.

The biosymbiotic device that Gutruf's team has introduced uses no adhesive, and it receives its power from a wireless system with a range of several meters. The device also includes a small energy storage unit, so that it will function even if the wearer goes out of the system's range, including out of the house.

"These devices are designed to require no interaction with the wearer," Gutruf said. "It's as simple as putting the device on. Then you forget about it, and it does its job."

This research was funded by the Flinn Foundation Translational Bioscience Seed Grants Pilot Program. The team has also been working with Tech Launch Arizona, the commercialization arm of the university, to protect the intellectual property and launch a startup to bring the technology to market.

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