Wireless Systems

With new funding in the company, the hardtech startup is bringing revolutionary technologies to reshape mmWave wireless.

Mahdavifar is preparing for a future of billions of connected devices and an unprecedented increase in mobile traffic.

Prof. Al-Thaddeus Avestruz and PhD student Xin Zan were honored at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition for their work improving the efficiency and reliability of wireless power transfer.

U-M researchers have created a new means of enabling reliable wireless underwater communication, which could aid military, environmental, and conservation purposes.

Electrify hosted its first Detroit Tech Camp at the Michigan Engineering Zone this summer to give Detroit-area students greater access to engage with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

PhD student Xin Zan is helping to free the world from cords, which could advance implantable medical devices, autonomous electric vehicles, and consumer electronics.

With $7.5M MURI grant, Professor Anthony Grbic is developing metamaterials for a new generation of integrated electromagnetic and photonic systems.

Mortazawi recognized as a distinguished educator in the field of microwave engineering and science.

Keeping time in the Internet of Things with frequency scaling

Kim’s research is expected to impact the future design and wireless operation of the next generation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices

New research into implanted medical devices and peer-to-peer charging.

Compared to conventional methods of wireless power, which require a specific distance and alignment, Prof. Mortazawi’s version operates over a range of distances and orientations without a drop in power.

Yektakhah’s system improves on the speed, portability, and accuracy of many commercial models

New software developed by CSE engineers and inspired, in part, by a Batman movie, could give any smartphone the capacity to sense force or pressure on its screen or body.

GridWatch can detect power outages by monitoring changes to its own power state, locally verifying these outages using a variety of sensors that reduce the likelihood of false power outage reports, and corroborating actual reports with other phones through data aggregation in the cloud.

Avish conducts research on ultra-low power and battery-less integrated circuits.

The paper describes a tunable filter for wireless communication modules in the x-band frequency range that uses germanium-telluride phase change switches.

IoT applications are the next wave of computing and the next driving force of the semiconductor industry. The startup PsiKick [now Everactive] is helping shape this future.

Prof. Grbic specializes in the broad fields of electromagnetics and optics, with interests ranging from fundamental electromagnetic theory to microwave circuits.

Ambiq Micro, Crossbar, Inc., and PsiKick, are leading the way in ultra-low power chip design, pioneering computer memory, and ultra-low power wireless sensor platforms.

This award is presented annually to a faculty member in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in acknowledgement of exceptional achievements in the education of our students.

The small-scale embedded wireless systems Alyssa works with are used in a variety of applications spanning many fields; from structural to ocean engineering.

Her research interests include analog, digital, and mixed-signal designs.

Winners are chosen for their outstanding accomplishments in teaching, research, and service.

Flynn has achieved important breakthroughs in the performance and energy efficiency of analog-digital interfaces.

Peterson’s findings could be used in wireless sensing and actuation systems, including those that deal with monitoring of the environment and medical conditions.

Gok’s developed antenna system promises a large bandwidth of operation and a wide angle of coverage.

Jason’s current research focuses on developing systems to wirelessly charge or power electronic devices.

Roberts is helping to develop low-power sensor nodes that will be worn on the body to detect certain medical conditions.

Prof. Zhaohui Zhong and his team of graduate students have built the first flexible, transparent digital modulator for high speed communications.

Stark’s research relates to wireless networks and understanding their fundamental limits in terms of energy efficiency and bandwidth efficiency.