Self-Powered Wireless Micro/Nano-Sensors for Next-Generation Biomedical Applications
ECE 595 Seminar Series
January 23, 2026
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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online, via zoom
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Presenter: Pai-Yen Chen, UIC
Abstract: With the rapid advent in sensors and actuators, and the ever-advancing wireless technologies, the idea of internet-of-things has had a revolutionary impact on ubiquitous computing with massive amount of data from the 5G/B5G-connected smart objects. This new paradigm has become the driving force for many new technologies, such as smart health, telemedicine, telediagnosis, and point-of-care testing. This talk will provide an overview of our recent advances in sensor telemetry techniques, micro/nanotechnology-driven wireless sensors and integrated systems. The first part of this talk will explore how “PT-symmetry” and “exceptional points” —concepts originally from quantum mechanics— can be translated into electronics to enhance the sensitivity and resolvability of passive wireless wearable/nearable/implantable sensors. The second part will introduce batteryless and wireless sensors capable of conducting real-time, continuous physical and biochemical sensing in cluttered and jamming environments. This section will also discuss passive wireless biosensors based on self-powered, chemically-sensitive RF modulators and oscillators made of nanomaterial-based field-effect transistors. Additionally, this talk will cover wearable antennas and circuits crafted from soft, flexible, stretchable, and breathable nanocomposite materials and their applications in smart skin technologies.
Speaker bio: Pai-Yen Chen is a professor and University Scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). He received the PhD degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013, and MS and BS degrees from National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan in 2006 and 2004, respectively. He was a research S=scientist at Intellectual Ventures Laboratory (2013-2014) and an assistant researcher in the Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute (2006-2009). Chen has been involved in multidisciplinary research on electromagnetics, RF/microwave antennas and circuits, wireless sensors and systems, metamaterials, nanophotonics, and nanoelectronics. He has received several prestigious awards, including IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award (advanced career), IEEE Sensors Council Young Professional Award, IEEE AP-S Raj Mittra Travel Grant, SPIE Rising Researcher Award, NSF CAREER Award, ACES Early Career Award, Young Scientist Award from Electromagnetics Academy and International Union of Radio Science (URSI), IOP Emerging Leader in Measurement Science and Technology, University of Illinois Scholar, UIC Researcher of the Year Rising Star, Donald Harrington Fellowship, UAAT International Young Visiting Scholar, and quite a few best paper and design awards from IEEE flagship conferences. He currently serves as senior editor for IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Sensors, topical editor for IEEE Sensors Journal, track editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, and associate editor for Optics Express and Advanced Photonics Nexus. He was a former associate editor of IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification, and IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology. Chen currently serves as the distinguished lecturer for IEEE Sensors Council (2024-2026) and IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (2026-2028). He is an fellow of IEEE and Optica/OSA.
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Jan 23, 2026
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Jan 23, 2026