Professor Emmanouil M Tentzeris

Ken Byers Professor in Flexible Electronics

Technical Interest Groups: Electromagnetics

Georgia Tech

Title: “Zero-Power” Flexible Wireless Modules for “Green” Smart Cities, Smart Precision Agriculture and Internet of Things Applications

Abstract

 In this talk, Prof. Tentzeris will introduce “green” 3D-/4D-printed systems for ultra-low-cost mass production of “zero-power” Modules for Communication, Energy Harvesting and Sensing applications. The presented approach could potentially set the foundation for the truly convergent wireless sensor ad-hoc networks of the future with enhanced cognitive intelligence and "rugged" packaging. Prof. Tentzeris will discuss issues concerning the power sources of "near-perpetual" RF modules, including flexible miniaturized batteries as well as power-scavenging approaches involving thermal, EM, vibration and solar energy forms. The final step of the presentation will involve examples from shape-changing 4D-printed (origami) packages, reflect arrays and mmW wearable (e.g. biomonitoring) antennas and RF modules. Special attention will be paid on the integration of ultra broadband (Gb/sec) inkjet-printed nanotechnology-based backscattering communication modules as well as miniaturized printable wireless (e.g.CNT) sensors for Internet of Things (IoT), 5G and smart agriculture/biomonitoring applications. It has to be noted that the talk will review and present challenges for inkjet-printed organic active and nonlinear devices as well as future directions in the area of environmentally-friendly ("green") RF electronics and "smart-skin' conformal sensors.

Biography

Professor Emmanouil (Manos) M. Tentzeris was born and grew up in Piraeus, Greece. He graduated from Ionidios Model School of Piraeus in 1987 and received the Diploma (Suma Cum Laude) from the National Technical University in Athens, Greece in 1992 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1993 and1998, respectively. He joined the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1998.