The invention involves a packaging technique to connect the antenna with the circuits via a wireless connection between a micro-antenna embedded within the circuits on the chip.
“This has not been tried before – that the circuits are connected to the antenna wirelessly. They’ve been connected through wires and a bunch of other components. That’s where the power gets lost,” Mr. Shamim said.
He estimates his module consumes 12 times less power than the traditional, wired-transmitter module. It is also much simpler in design, lowering the overall cost of any hand-held device, he said.
Mr. Shamim has filed patent applications in the U.S. and in Canada.
Earlier this year, the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation honored Mr. Shamim and Mr. Arsalan as student researchers of the year for their work in the field of wireless biomedical sensors. Also honored was University of Ottawa student David Nadeau, for his contribution to the “more intelligent online search engine,” yooname.com
Research on the invention, to be published in the upcoming edition of Microwave Journal, has already received international accolades.
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