Thursday, Jan. 26 2022, 10:00 am (MST)

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Speaker:

Distinguished Microwave Lecturer: Dr. Jasmin Grosinger

Jasmin Grosinger (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) degree (Hons.) in telecommunications and the Dr.techn. (Ph.D.) degree (Hons.) from the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, in 2008 and 2012, respectively. In January 2021, she received her Venia Docendi in RF and microwave engineering from the Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria.Prof. Grosinger was involved with various projects dealing with RFID at the Institute of Telecommunications, Vienna University of Technology, from 2008 to 2013, and with RFID sensor project with Disney Research in Pittsburgh 2011. From 2013 to 2017, she was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Institute of Microwave and Photonic Engineering, Graz University of Technology, focusing on RFID technologies research, where she became an Assistant Professor in 2017, and an Associate Professor in 2021. In 2018, 2019, and 2021, she was a Guest Professor at the Institute of Electronics, Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. She has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications and holds one U.S. patent.Prof. Grosinger is actively involved in the Technical Program and Steering Committees of various RF-related conferences and is an Associate Editor of the IEEE MICROWAVE AND WIRELESS COMPONENTS LETTERS. She is a member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) and the Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale Austria (Commission D). Within MTT-S, she serves as a Distinguished Microwave Lecturer (Tatsuo Itoh DML class of 2022–2024), a member of the IEEE MTT-S Technical Committees MTT-25 Wireless Power Transfer and Energy Conversion Committee and MTT-26 RFID, Wireless Sensors and IoT Committee, and as the Co-Chair of the Women in Microwaves Sub-Committee of the Member and Geographic Activities Committee. In 2022, she serves as the MTT-S AdCom Secretary.

Abstract

In this talk, I will present radio frequency (RF) design solutions for wireless sensor nodes
to solve sustainability issues in the Internet of things (IoT), which arise due to the massive
deployment of wireless IoT nodes on environmental and economic levels. Engineers can apply
these RF design solutions to improve the ultra-low-power operation of IoT nodes, avoid batteries’
eco-toxicity, and decrease maintenance costs due to battery replacement. The presented solutions
offer high integration levels based on system-on-chip and system-in-package concepts in lowcost complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technologies to limit costs and carbon footprints
of these nodes.
Within this research context, I will present solutions for ultra-low-power wireless
communication systems based on high frequency (HF) and ultra-high frequency (UHF) radio
frequency identification (RFID) technologies. In particular, I will present RF design solutions for
HF and UHF RFID systems that reveal how to develop passive miniaturized IoT nodes that
operate robustly in harsh application environments and how to create batteryless or rather passive
IoT nodes, which provide passive sensing capabilities and work robustly in their respective
application environment.