Laboratories Radio Frequency Systems and Devices
Radio Frequency Systems and Devices Laboratory:
570 Benedum Hall
This laboratory is the home of the PENI Tag. The PENI Tag technology is an enabling technology that makes possible operational devices that are currently as small as 3 cubic millimeters in size with no batteries or connecting wires. The design of the small Systems On a Chip (SOC) requires the most modern computer workstations and software.
Chips are designed and simulated in this laboratory by a team of researchers. They are then submitted for fabrication over the internet to a remote foundry. The completed chips are then tested here.
The PENI Tag technology makes it possible to remotely provide power to operate a wide range of devices and systems that are used for product identification such as bar codes in the supermarket as well as sensing things such as temperature and humidity, and in addition providing security functions.
In addition to computers (workstations) and software, the laboratory is equipped with a wide array of radio frequency test equipment.
Devices designed by the team using this laboratory have been the subject of extensive media coverage and have acquired the interest of technology and management persons of numerous major US corporations.
