A new frontier of printed electronics: flexible hybrid electronics

Y Khan, A Thielens, S Muin, J Ting… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The performance and integration density of silicon integrated circuits (ICs) have progressed
at an unprecedented pace in the past 60 years. While silicon ICs thrive at low‐power high …

The potential of additive manufacturing in the smart factory industrial 4.0: A review

M Mehrpouya, A Dehghanghadikolaei, B Fotovvati… - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Additive manufacturing (AM) or three-dimensional (3D) printing has introduced a novel
production method in design, manufacturing, and distribution to end-users. This technology …

Methods and materials for smart manufacturing: additive manufacturing, internet of things, flexible sensors and soft robotics

A Kumar - Manufacturing Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the realization of smart manufacturing
and Industry 4.0, rapid advancements in technologies will change manufacturing of goods …

A novel solar and electromagnetic energy harvesting system with a 3-D printed package for energy efficient Internet-of-Things wireless sensors

J Bito, R Bahr, JG Hester, SA Nauroze… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper discusses the design of a novel dual (solar+ electromagnetic) energy harvesting
powered communication system, which operates at 2.4 GHz ISM band, enabling the …

A survey on RF energy harvesting techniques for lifetime enhancement of wireless sensor networks

P Sharma, AK Singh - Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
Lifetime enhancement of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has been a significant challenge
for the researchers for the last two decades. In WSNs, sensor nodes operate in an …

3D-printed origami packaging with inkjet-printed antennas for RF harvesting sensors

J Kimionis, M Isakov, BS Koh… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper demonstrates the combination of additive manufacturing techniques for realizing
complex 3D origami structures for high frequency applications. A 3D-printed compact …

A flexible 2.45-GHz power harvesting wristband with net system output from− 24.3 dBm of RF power

SE Adami, P Proynov, GS Hilton, G Yang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a flexible 2.45-GHz wireless power harvesting wristband that generates
a net dc output from a-24.3-dBm RF input. This is the lowest reported system sensitivity for …

Fully inkjet-printed microfluidics: a solution to low-cost rapid three-dimensional microfluidics fabrication with numerous electrical and sensing applications

W Su, BS Cook, Y Fang, MM Tentzeris - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
As the needs for low-cost rapidly-produced microfluidics are growing with the trend of Lab-
on-a-Chip and distributed healthcare, the fully inkjet-printing of microfluidics can be a …

Infill-dependent 3-D-printed material based on NinjaFlex filament for antenna applications

S Moscato, R Bahr, T Le, M Pasian… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents one of the first examples of the exploitation of 3-D printing in the
fabrication of microwave components and antennas. Additive manufacturing represents an …

Inkjet-printed flexible mm-wave Van-Atta reflectarrays: A solution for ultralong-range dense multitag and multisensing chipless RFID implementations for IoT smart …

JGD Hester, MM Tentzeris - IEEE Transactions on Microwave …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this effort, the authors implement the first ultralong-range chipless sensing sticker, by
providing more than an order of magnitude increase in reading range, compared with the …